An award-winning composer and acclaimed jazz pianist, as well as a producer and bandleader. A voting member of the Recording Academy, she has 31 albums released in the United States as well as two in Asia. She has performed at venues of all sizes, including Carnegie Hall, The Smithsonian, and UCLA Royce Theater, among others. At the end of November, she released an album that the London Times called one of “The Best Jazz Albums of 2025.” Her albums regularly sit at the top of the Jazz Week and other radio/streaming charts, for the last two decades drawing millions of plays on streaming services and appearing regularly as an Amazon Number 1 New Jazz Release.
“Everyone is always asking me, where do I get my ideas from. Because I love to compose… but, everywhere! Everywhere I am, I see an idea for a song, it seems like.”
“I don't do it in one sitting, because if you do it in one sitting then you're trying to be perfect. So, I never try and be perfect. All I try and do is I get something down.”
“I know that people can create from the outside in, but I create from the inside out. So, it just comes out of me and then I try and figure out what it's saying or where it's going.”
“We do not rehearse or anything. We just get in the studio and let it flow.”
“We recorded last August at an amazing studio in Hollywood called East West Studios. A lot of famous albums have been recorded there.”
“Being a producer is really similar to being an art director or a creative director, which is what I had done in the past. And I love that work.”
“I love playing the piano. I really, my favorite thing is composing, but I also like producing the album… And I love being the creative director on the album packaging itself.”
“I'm not after perfection; I'm after connecting with people. And when I am able to connect, that is the goal… we're trying to touch people. We're trying to uplift people. I don't know how to make the world a better place, but I'm hoping through music, through this international language, that we might be able to touch people.”
“I think that if you're a writer you expect someone to write and if you are a poet, you expect someone to write poetry. If you're an engineer, you will continue working on engineering projects or interior designer you will continue to design the interiors of homes. But for some reason if you're a composer, you're supposed to write a few songs and then take a break. But I write because I have to, I need to, I want to, I enjoy it. I think it's how I process my world.”
“I can't stop; as long as the music continues to come out, I will enjoy composing and seeing where it takes me.”
“You need to listen to what you want inside of yourself, your heart, your spirit will tell you which direction that you would like to go if you just take the time to listen.”
“Seabirds”
“Momentary Mystery”