Writing original Canadian lyrics and music that combines the sensibilities of bebop, vintage movie musicals, and the Great American songbook, jazz vocalist Angela Verbrugge has emerged as one of Western Canada’s busiest performers. In 2024, she was nominated for Jazz Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards. Verbrugge released her debut album in 2019 and won the JazzTimes’ Magazine poll for Best Female Vocalist in 2020.
She has already performed in Japan, the UK, Germany, Luxembourg, France, Türkiye, and across Canada in a few short years. Angela’s first two albums were included in LA Jazz Journal/Downbeat critic Scott Yanow’s top albums of the year list, and he predicts that her songs may become standards in the future. Angela’s third album, Somewhere, was released in May 2024 on renowned US-jazz label, Origin Records.
Verbrugge has performed with Grammy-winning/nominated, Juno-winning/nominated and/or Order of Canada recipients. Angela was one of the youngest graduates from Toronto’s George Brown College School of Performing Arts in Theatre Studies after a youth spent in Kingston, Ontario. She relocated permanently to Vancouver in 1997, and has resided on Vancouver Island since 2019.
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