George Evans (singer)
George Louis Henry Evans (born January 23, 1963) is a Canadian jazz singer. He was born in Bloomington, Indiana, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. His parents were university music teachers, which inspired his career in music. He studied musical theater and trombone in Cincinnati and at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
In the 1980s he moved to New York City to pursue theater while singing, later building a career as a vocalist, broadcaster, producer and archivist. He performed in New York cabarets, studied and performed in Montreal, and moved to Toronto in 1999. He worked as a musicologist for Verve Records, helped create Here Come The Boys: a Canadian Crooner Collection in 2004, and released albums such as Bewitched and Live at the Cellar. Evans has been nominated for Canadian National Jazz Awards and has performed at major festivals across Canada and in New York City.
He also wrote a jazz column for Planet Jazz and produced The Jazz Standard series for Jazz.fm in 2009. In 2008 he received a MAC Award nomination with Mary Foster Conklin for best jazz duo or group.
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