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In 2022, then twenty-three-year-old singer Lucía was a finalist at the prestigious Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. The Veracruz native also was the first Mexican artist to enter the contest. For her performance in the final round, Lucía chose a standard that reflected her musical sensibility, influenced equally by the beauty of jazz and the Latin American songbook.
“We played ‘What a Difference a Day Makes,’ which was popularized by Dinah Washington, but in its initial incarnation was a bolero written in Spanish by María Grever,” she says from her home in New York City. “We started it as a jazz ballad in English, then switched to Spanish and added some zapateado dancing.”
Lucía won the competition. And the fact that she did it with such a soulful, multicultural rendition of a jazz standard marked her arrival on the music scene. Lucía’s gorgeous rendition of the standard now opens her self-titled debut album. It’s also a fixture of her live sets, anchoring performances filled with numbers in which Lucía deftly and gorgeously blends jazz, Latin, and pop music. Be with us as Lucía brings our Next50 series to a magnificent close in the intimate setting of The Drake.
