New Orleans based vocalist Anna Laura Quinn brings sincerity, humor, and an immutable grace to her craft, leaning into the improvisational essence of the music she sings with astonishing radiance and honesty. Onstage or in the recording studio, she moves with ease between personalized arrangements of American Songbook gems, songs in French and Portuguese, surprising interpretations of popular music from the 1960s to now, and a growing number of her own compositions, beguiling audiences with what Downbeat called “the inherent delight of [her] vocal timbre.”

 

Anna Laura was raised in San Francisco, where her musical education began at home absorbing the work of many singers from across genres – jazz, baroque, folk, pop, and art songs. Since 2010, she has called New Orleans home, and it is in that musically charged city that her voice has found its full expression. Now with three albums to her name as bandleader and arranger, she brings repertoire out into the world that defies easy categorization, moving deftly between highly personalized arrangements of American Songbook gems, songs in French and Portuguese, and surprising interpretations of popular music from across eras. No matter the setting, Anna Laura brings undeniable sincerity, humor, and joie de vivre to her craft.

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​She is a dynamic presence on the New Orleans music scene, performing regularly with projects under her own name and with the Unmentionables, a band she founded in 2020 that plays what she likes to call "New Orleans Getdown Music." She can be found performing all around New Orleans – from such venerable jazz venues as Snug Harbor, Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar and the New Orleans Jazz Museum, to some of the city's most well loved barrooms like Saturn Bar, Vaughan's, and BJ's Lounge.