Mari Anne Jayme : Click Here> to check out a video preview of Mari Anne's Acoustic Chicago track "Waiting for Me "

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Vocalist Mari Anne Jayme is indeed a diverse musician, having had a childhood steeped in weekly piano lessons, and soaking up popular music with radio & music television. She recalls her earliest influential musical experiences listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn. She has filled the professional roles of student, teacher, singer, pianist & accompanist, composer, arranger, choreographer, dancer, drummer, voice & piano instructor, adjudicator, auditioner, auditionee, choir director, bandleader, and bassist. Her songwriting contains an imaginative mix of different genres yet she makes the sound distinctively her own.
She previously taught Jazz Voice at Columbia College Chicago and at Jacksonville University in Florida.  Alongside being a vocalist and teacher, she currently writes, arranges, and directs music Center For Spiritual Living in Chicago, and travels worldwide to sing with Gary Sinise's Lt. Dan Band. 

Mari Anne received a Master of Music from Roosevelt University in Chicago and a Bachelor of Science from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.  She also attended at the University of Kentucky, where she majored in Vocal Performance, and at Eastern Kentucky University, where she focused on Music Education and the Percussive Arts.  Mari Anne began her professional music career in Jacksonville, Florida, and also sang in 'Voices of Liberty' at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World.  She has been living in the Midwest for eight years.

Mari Anne’s  soulful addition to the Acoustic Chicago collection exhibits her subtle, yet remarkably flexible singing chops. Also on board, using his astonishing ten-finger guitar technique is fellow Acoustic Chicago artist Andreas Kapsalis . The experience of writing “Waiting For Me” was a unique occurrence for the both of them, and the beautiful piece was a result of the sum of their two talents perfectly complimenting each other. Mari Anne is an artist truly influenced and fueled by her peers, and her dreams.