Adjunct Instructor of Jazz Vocals Adjunct Instructor of Jazz Vocals
Laura Ann Singh is a multilingual American singer, recording artist and composer, often associated with musica popular brasileira and Latin boleros. She has performed internationally in Europe, Russia, and South America, and with Miramar has been featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk and headlined globalFEST in New York City. She has recorded with Daptone Records, Barbès Records, and Electric Cowbell as well as dozens of independent recordings. Her repertoire pulls from all over Latin America, especially Brazil, but includes American Songbook standards, women composers, and original music.
In 2025, Laura Ann began recording with Rosette, a Richmond-based string quartet. Their first single from this project was released in March and is streaming on all major platforms. You can listen here.
Laura Ann is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed ensemble Miramar. In September of 2024, Miramar released Un Astro, the first single from their second album, Entre Tus Flores, which was released on Ansonia Records in January of 2025. Miramar began as a bolero band with Singh, Reinaldo Alvarez and Marlysse Simmons. Miramar revives Latin American romantic music from the 1950s and 60s, and explores the bolero’s worldwide influence and performs original material. Their notable appearances include the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and the Lincoln Center, Elabash Concert Hall, and globalFEST in New York City. In 2019, the band performed in Paris and Lyon, France, for the Les Nuit de la Fourviere Festival. In the spring of 2020 they toured Russia, playing concerts with local Russian string quartets from Moscow to Siberia. In October of 2020, amid the global pandemic, Miramar opened the Richmond Symphony’s Pops series with a masked and distanced in-person concert. They reprised their appearance as featured artists with the RSO in October 2024 with a full orchestra.
Miramar has been featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series and All Songs Considered. They are recipients of the MidAtlantic Arts Foundation USArtists International Grant, and have released recordings on two of Brooklyn’s most famed indie-labels, Barbès and Daptone Records.
Laura Ann also performs with Quatro na Bossa, a Brazilian music project she launched with guitarist and arranger Kevin Harding in 2002. Her passion for Brazilian music eventually led her to São Paulo where she studied privately with acclaimed Brazilian vocalist Fabiana Cozza. Quatro na Bossa has performed all over the East Coast, including repeat residencies at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at the Lincoln Center. In 2008 the band released an album, Summer Samba, on the Japanese Jazz label, Venus Records. Their self-released album, Bossa Nossa, debuted in 2012.
In 2023, she was the featured vocalist on the Doug Richards Orchestra’s Through a Sonic Prism: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim. She has performed with DRO, most recently as a guest artist at VCU’s Singleton Center in Richmond, VA.
Laura Ann loves the collaborative nature of her chosen field and is constantly grateful for the flow of communication between her and her audience, whether it is in fancy concert halls in big cities or small shows in intimate venues.