Mar Fayos
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Mar Fayos is a jazz singer from Barcelona, Spain. She performs jazz-fusion music with Latin, Mediterranean, and soul influences. For this performance, she will present a new formation, her quartet, and will offer a special repertoire designed for this performance.
Fayos, a graduate of Berklee College of Music, where she studied vocal performance, arranging, and contemporary conducting, received the first Mili Bermejo Scholarship Award from the college's Voice Department for her work as a Latin jazz singer, and the college's Professional Music Academic Excellence Award.
Fayos has performed with distinguished international artists such as Brazilian composer Toninho Horta, four-time Grammy winner Oscar Stagnaro, and Mexican bolero composer Armando Manzanero. She has performed at the Newport Folk Festival with the Berklee Gospel and Roots Choir and participated in Berklee's Great American Songbook tribute to Paul Simon.