Fay Claassen
Fay Claassen
Latest Release
- The Second Time Around
- July 2025
- • 12 Songs
Top Songs
| 1 | If I Were A Bell [The Dutch Heritage Series] | ||
| 2 | The Second Time Around [The Dutch Heritage Series] | ||
| 3 | Ill Wind [The Dutch Heritage Series] | ||
| 4 | Satin Doll [The Dutch Heritage Series] | ||
| 5 | Woman In Love [Live] |
Albums
Jun 2025 • 1 song
May 2025 • 12 songs
Apr 2025 • 1 song
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Biography
Like Soesja Citroen -- one of Holland's best-known jazz singers -- Fay Claassen is a Dutch jazz vocalist who has no problem getting around in the English language. Claassen has brought a slice trace of a Dutch accent to her post-bop recordings, but only a slight trace -- and she obviously has a great understanding of the English-language material she has embraced (which has ranged from Tin Pan Alley standards to Burt Bacharach/Hal David songs to lyrics that Cassandra Wilson wrote for Miles Davis' "Seven Steps to Heaven"). But even though Claassen sings in English more often th...