With her universal yet individual style Youn Sun Nah gives traditional vocal jazz a new flavour, while unconventionally and effortlessly exploring new exciting spaces. She is one of the most outstanding representatives of vocal jazz that includes the whole spectrumof contemporary music.Female singers who manage to stir a whole genre are seldomfound. Diana Krall and Norah Jones are such outstanding talents who gavevocal jazz a whole new colour, and Korean singer Youn Sun Nah has beenequally phenomenal. In the last few years she has conquered the musicworld with her albums Voyage (2009) and Same Girl (2010) released onACT.Within two years Nah had received her fourth Korean Music Award , the BMWWorld Jazz Award and the ECHO Jazz Award for best international femalesinger whilst in France, her second home, Same Girl was the best sellingjazz album of the year in 2011, Nah received the Prix Mimi Perrin du JazzVocal as female vocalist of the year, the leading magazine Jazzmanawarded her with Choc de l'annee 2012 as artist of the year and she wasgranted the title of nobility Chevalier de l Ordre des Arts et desLettres by the culture secretary, putting her in the prominent company ofsuch stars as David Bowie, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Dustin Hoffman.What is the secret of her remarkable success? Her new album Lento givesan explanation by combining Youn Sun Nah s unique qualities. One of themis the blending of different cultural and musical sources, in a respectfulyet unconventional manner. Besides jazz and related styles, she draws onchanson, pop and folk music, and in addition to compositions by herself.