Quiana Lynell

Vocalist Quiana Lynell is gifted jazz performer with a bent toward standards, blues, contemporary gospel, and New Orleans R&B traditions. Emerging in Louisiana in the 2010s, Lynell came to wider recognition after winning the 2017 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. Her debut album, A Little Love, arrived in 2019. Born in Tyler, Texas, Lynell spent much of her youth in Abilene where she grew up singing gospel music in church. After high school, she moved to Baton Rouge where she attended Louisiana State University on scholarship, graduating with her B.A. in Vo...