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Jazz Vocalist/Songwriter/Actress
LYNETTE WASHINGTON is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her extensive music career in jazz, r&b, and gospel, has taken her across the globe travelling as far as Australia. Her gift and ability to sing in several languages including Russian, Italian, Hebrew, Yiddish, French & Portuguese has made Ms. Washington a sought after singer for many years. Her professional career began to soar when she performed in various Russian nightclubs throughout New York City and Europe.
Lynette was the Grand Prize Winner of the first Jazzmobile / Anheuser Busch Jazz Vocal Competition, and was featured on WBGO's Singers Unlimited Show and her albums have been in rotation on over 100 radio stations, both domestic and internationally. As the Grand Prize Winner of the Jazz Vocal Competition, Ms. Washington performed at WBLS radios Croton Music Festival and the City Of Yonkers' Friday Night Sculpture Garden Jazz Festival.
An established songwriter and arranger, Lynette has worked with well-known artists such as, Aretha Franklin, U2, Celia Cruz and a host of respected jazz icons such as Clifford Jordan, Alex Blake, George Coleman, Dave Grusin, Dave Valentin, Tom Browne etc. She was featured lead singer with New Voices of Freedom, the group who appeared in U2, Rattle & Hum, Scrooged, BBC/Virgin Records world-wide telecast and album One World, One Voice, the Give Peace A Chance video with Lenny Kravitz, NY at Night, The Joan Rivers Show and the MTV Video Music Awards with the Godfather of Soul, James Brown and comedian Jimmy Fallon. She was one of the lead actors in a national tour of the classic gospel musical Crowns by Regina Taylor, world-renowned, award-winning playwright and actor.
Lynette has recorded radio and television commercials appearing in national commercials for Roy Rogers, Pizza Hut and Toyota. In 2002, Lynette completed her first solo project entitled Long, Long Ago: A Jazz Celebration of Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanzaa. Her second album, Smoky Dawn, was released in April 2004. Kaleidoscope, her third, released in May 2010 and her most recent album, Live at the X was released on January 1, 2012. Her single, a jazz cover of Paul McCartneys My Valentine, was an iTunes jazz feature for a month upon its release in early 2013. Lynette's new album "LIVE! At NewRoc Summer Sounds" featuring Dennis Bell Jazz NY was released on 7.7.18 is being played extensively on terrestrial & Internet Radio to great acclaim.
She has appeared regularly at New York metropolitan area venues which include Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, The River Room, Creole Jazz & Supper Club, The Schomburg Library, The Apollo Theater, BB Kings, The Brooklyn Museum, The White Plains Jazz Festival , The New Rochelle Summer Sounds Festival, Mt Vernon CityFest, Maureen's Jazz Cellar, BB Kings,The Sculpture Garden in Yonkers, PJS Jazz Society, Westchester Performing Arts Center, ArtsWestchester New Urban Jazz series, Blues Alley in Washington D.C., Kean University, the Winters Eve Festival at NYCs Broadway Apple Store, Lincoln Center, 966 Jazz, Jazzmobile Summerfests at Grants Tomb, Jackie Robinson Park, Harlem River Park & Riverbank State Park and Jazz at Kitano. Lynette Washington is an iTunes Essential Jazz Artist and has been a featured artist on their jazz page for every one of her album and singles releases. Lynette is often accompanied by her Producer/Musical Directors and Gold/Platinum award winning Dennis Bell his ensemble Dennis Bell Jazz NY.
A consummate singer in every sense of the word, Ms. Washington is also highly regarded, by musicians, as a singers singer.
Ms. Washington's Albums, Live at the X, Kaleidoscope, Smoky Dawn, Live! At The Kennedy Center, Long, Long Ago and LIVE! At NewRoc Summer Sounds are available from www.guavajamm.net , iTunes, & Apple Music, CDBaby, Amazon and all other major digital distribution/streaming outlets.

Jazz Vocalist/Songwriter/Actress
LYNETTE WASHINGTON is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her extensive music career in jazz, r&b, and gospel, has taken her across the globe travelling as far as Australia. Her gift and ability to sing in several languages including Russian, Italian, Hebrew, Yiddish, French & Portuguese has made Ms. Washington a sought after singer for many years. Her professional career began to soar when she performed in various Russian nightclubs throughout New York City and Europe.
Lynette was the Grand Prize Winner of the first Jazzmobile / Anheuser Busch Jazz Vocal Competition, and was featured on WBGO's Singers Unlimited Show and her albums have been in rotation on over 100 radio stations, both domestic and internationally. As the Grand Prize Winner of the Jazz Vocal Competition, Ms. Washington performed at WBLS radios Croton Music Festival and the City Of Yonkers' Friday Night Sculpture Garden Jazz Festival.
An established songwriter and arranger, Lynette has worked with well-known artists such as, Aretha Franklin, U2, Celia Cruz and a host of respected jazz icons such as Clifford Jordan, Alex Blake, George Coleman, Dave Grusin, Dave Valentin, Tom Browne etc. She was featured lead singer with New Voices of Freedom, the group who appeared in U2, Rattle & Hum, Scrooged, BBC/Virgin Records world-wide telecast and album One World, One Voice, the Give Peace A Chance video with Lenny Kravitz, NY at Night, The Joan Rivers Show and the MTV Video Music Awards with the Godfather of Soul, James Brown and comedian Jimmy Fallon. She was one of the lead actors in a national tour of the classic gospel musical Crowns by Regina Taylor, world-renowned, award-winning playwright and actor.
Lynette has recorded radio and television commercials appearing in national commercials for Roy Rogers, Pizza Hut and Toyota. In 2002, Lynette completed her first solo project entitled Long, Long Ago: A Jazz Celebration of Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanzaa. Her second album, Smoky Dawn, was released in April 2004. Kaleidoscope, her third, released in May 2010 and her most recent album, Live at the X was released on January 1, 2012. Her single, a jazz cover of Paul McCartneys My Valentine, was an iTunes jazz feature for a month upon its release in early 2013. Lynette's new album "LIVE! At NewRoc Summer Sounds" featuring Dennis Bell Jazz NY was released on 7.7.18 is being played extensively on terrestrial & Internet Radio to great acclaim.
She has appeared regularly at New York metropolitan area venues which include Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, The River Room, Creole Jazz & Supper Club, The Schomburg Library, The Apollo Theater, BB Kings, The Brooklyn Museum, The White Plains Jazz Festival , The New Rochelle Summer Sounds Festival, Mt Vernon CityFest, Maureen's Jazz Cellar, BB Kings,The Sculpture Garden in Yonkers, PJS Jazz Society, Westchester Performing Arts Center, ArtsWestchester New Urban Jazz series, Blues Alley in Washington D.C., Kean University, the Winters Eve Festival at NYCs Broadway Apple Store, Lincoln Center, 966 Jazz, Jazzmobile Summerfests at Grants Tomb, Jackie Robinson Park, Harlem River Park & Riverbank State Park and Jazz at Kitano. Lynette Washington is an iTunes Essential Jazz Artist and has been a featured artist on their jazz page for every one of her album and singles releases. Lynette is often accompanied by her Producer/Musical Directors and Gold/Platinum award winning Dennis Bell his ensemble Dennis Bell Jazz NY.
A consummate singer in every sense of the word, Ms. Washington is also highly regarded, by musicians, as a singers singer.
Ms. Washington's Albums, Live at the X, Kaleidoscope, Smoky Dawn, Live! At The Kennedy Center, Long, Long Ago and LIVE! At NewRoc Summer Sounds are available from www.guavajamm.net , iTunes, & Apple Music, CDBaby, Amazon and all other major digital distribution/streaming outlets.

