Pippi Ardennia describes her style as PipJazz--! Music with a purpose, music that becomes your lifestlye, music that makes you FEEL GOOD! Pippi A is more than a song writer/song stylist. Her voice has been described as an instrument, she loves the music and you can see and hear it. Another master has emerged, as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and Dinah Washington. Pippi is a natural entertainer, sultry at times, always powerful and exciting, but what sweeps you away is the electric raw emotion that emanates from her to you, telling a story in song like you’ve never heard before, a natural power in nature.
Pippi Ardennia a Chicago native, singing since she was 13 years old, has performed at many of Chicago's most respected jazz clubs from the Burning Spear, High Chaparral, Capitol Theater, Mr. Kelly's to the famous Rosebud on Rush, Redhead, Green Dolphin, Chicago Symphony Center and the Taste of Chicago, Minneapolis, Mn Dakota Jazz Club and Chicago’s elite private Tavern Club. She has performed for such notables as President Clinton, Mayor Daley, Tony Bennett and Liza Minnelli, and performed with Freddie Hubbard, George Freeman, Billy Branch, Johnny Taylor and more.
The following testimonials are examples that demonstrate how Pippi is more than a singer, song writer & song stylist. . “Ms. Ardennia's classy style puts her in the Major League of jazz vocalists. Her easy-going style and varied delivery does stand in comparison to the great jazz divas such as Ella Fitzgerald and Lena Horne.”--Ian Tiele, President, Brookfield Jazz Society. Pippi’s ‘Black Coffee? CD is a collection of jazz classics from the Great American Songbook which is hard to beat; “A monument to a magical musical era now long gone by.”---Allen Hall. After listening to Black Coffee, jazz lovers recognize the subtle, blended tones of Jazz eras most powerful Mistresses of Song that seem to channel through Pippi Ardennia’s style.
” The great jazz trumpeter,Freddy Hubbard said, “People will know Pippi!”
Visit www.pippiardennia.com or www.cdbaby.com/pippi and order her Black Coffee CD. Come and feel the music, a vocal talent that emerges only once in a lifetime. What an experience!
