AMY CERVINI
Genres: Vocal Jazz, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Blues • Canada

Born in Toronto, Canada, in 1977, Cervini studied classical piano as a teenager in an advanced program at Canada’s Royal Conservatory of Music. before While attending the Etobicoke School of the Arts, she focused on the saxophone near TKand performed with the Toronto All-Star Big Band. Although she sang solos in choirs and was called upon for vocals as one of the few women in her high school’s big bands, singing was peripheral to her studies until she auditioned to attend the New England Conservatory in Boston. She was auditioning on her principal instrument, the alto saxophone, when the instructor asked her if she sang. She ventured “Bye Bye Blackbird,” and the audition board was knocked out. “It’s ironic, but if I hadn’t have sung for them, I probably wouldn’t have gotten into NEC,” Cervini recalls. “I was a double-major in saxophone and voice there until about half-way through, when I read more...