Melanie Charles

Melanie Charles is a Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter, actress, and flutist of Haitian descent, with a creative fluidity spanning jazz, soul, experimental, and Haitian roots music. Charles' indie release “ The Girl with the Green shoes” and “Yall Dont Really Care Black Women” released under the Verve imprint established Charles as a progressive voice in Jazz gaining a handful of features in The New York Times , as well as The Village Voice. “You can hear her collaging her musical DNA into jazz-studded multi-instrumentalism and dipping a toe into the experimental... there's an uncanny cohesion to Charles' music.” Village Voice. Charles graduated from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music with a BFA in vocal jazz performance and has worked with Herlin Riley, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jean Grae, SZA, the Gorillaz, Mark De-Clive Lo, Mach Hommy, Kassa Overall and many others. .Her television appearances include Good Morning America , SNL , and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and HBO’s Vinyl . Charles’ passion project “Make Jazz Trill Again” aims to blur the lines between social classes, cultures, genders, sounds and theories to create a world where opposing elements and eras can co-exist through the vehicle of improvised music, podcast conversation, music and event production and advocacy.