Laurel Massé

A singer's singer, and a song's best friend.

Laurel Massé, founding member of Grammy award-winning vocal group Manhattan Transfer, toured internationally for seven years with the group and recorded five albums. In 1979, a serious automobile accident forced her departure. After two years of convalescence, she began touring again both in the States and in Europe. She has released four solo CDs; the first two, "Alone Together" and "Easy Living", both hit the Billboard Jazz charts; the third, "Again", was a People magazine pick. "Feather and Bone", her 2000 release, was picked by audiophile magazine The Absolute Sound as "a recording of extraordinary musical and sonic value".

In the course of her career, Laurel Massé has performed at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, the London Palladium, Salle Pleyel de Paris, the Hollywood Bowl, The Smithsonian Institution; jazz festivals in Montreal, Chicago, Woodstock, Syracuse, Detroit and Saratoga Springs; the clubs Birdland and the Blue Note in New York City, The Roxy Nightclub and The Cinegrill in Los Angeles, Chicago's Green Mill, and Harrah's, Caesar's Palace, MGM Grand, and the Hilton in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe. She has also appeared numerous times on television and radio.

In 2002 and 2003 she created and hosted The Laurel Massé Jazz Show, a monthly live concert performance program broadcast by WAMC Northeast Public Radio to a listening audience of 500,000.

Ms. Massé teaches master classes in song interpretation and improvisation for both professionals and amateurs in jazz and cabaret.
In 2004 she joined the faculty of The Cabaret Conference at Yale.

In 2004 she was recognized for her contribution to music when she, along with the four current members of the Manhattan Transfer, received the prized "MAC" (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ms. Massé is currently based in New York City, and performs internationally. For booking offers and enquiries email parkroadmanagement@verizon.net