Roxana Amed

Latin GRAMMY® nominee and Gardel Award winner Roxana Amed is an Argentine-American jazz artist, vocalist, songwriter, producer, and educator born in Buenos Aires. She is a dusky, virtuosic singer songwriter whose music blends South American folk traditions with sophisticated rock and post-bop jazz. She has earned acclaim for her albums with fellow Argentine multi-instrumentalist Pedro Aznar including 2004's Limbo and 2006’s Entremundos. Cinemateca Finlandesa in 2010, a duo album with pianist Adrián Iaies; Inocencia in 2011, followed by 2013’s La Sombra de Su Sombra, with pianist Frank Carlberg featuring the poems of Alejandra Pizarnik. In 2019, she returned with Instantáneas, an album of live-in-studio performances. In 2021, she released ONTOLOGY, which featured her group with pianist Martin Bejerano. In August 2021 she is awarded the “New Jazz Works” by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation through Chamber Music America to write new music and her album ONTOLOGY receives 2 Latin GRAMMYs® nominations for Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album and Best Arrangement categories and won the Gardel Award for Best Jazz Album in 2022. In 2023 she received 2 new nominations, 1 for the Gardel Awards for UNÁNIME, and for the Latin GRAMMY® for Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album. She also released the album “Los Trabajos y las Noches” with music by Frank Carlberg. She is currently teaching as a professor at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and Miami Dade College.