Fleurine

Fleurine Verloop, known professionally as Fleurine, is a Dutch jazz vocalist.

Biography Fleurine studied at the Amsterdam School of High Arts Conservatory and then moved to New York. Beginning in the 1990s she has lived and worked in the Netherlands and the United States. 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2004 and 2019.

In 1996 she was invited as a guest vocalist with the Roy Hargrove Quintet at the Havana Jazz Festival in Cuba. During a worldwide festival tour promoting her debut album in 1997, she met pianist Brad Mehldau, who was promoting his first album as a leader. Their bands were booked at the same festivals that summer: Festival International de Montreal (Fleurine played at the Spectrum sharing a double bill with Patricia Barber) and Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy (with T.S Monk band's and as a guest Brad Mehldau).

Her first album was Meant to Be! for EmArcy in 1995. Fleurine wrote Portuguese lyrics for Mehldau's music and English lyrics for Pat Metheny's song "Better Days Ahead". Mehldau wrote string arrangements for some of the songs.

Fire was released in 2003. On Brazilian Dream she recorded with a Brazilian band that included Vitor Goncalves, Ian Faquini, Chico Pinheiro, Eduardo Belo, and Rogerio Boccato with guests Mehldau and Chris Potter. Fleurine played guitar on some songs, composed most of the music, and wrote lyrics in English and Portuguese.

Awards and honors Fleurine's album Brazilian Dream, for which she composed the majority of the material and wrote all the lyrics, was nominated for an Edison Award. In October 2019 she received an "Overdue Ovation" from Jazztimes magazine.

Discography Meant to Be! (EmArcy, 1995) Close Enough for Love (EmArcy, 2000) Fire (Coast to Coast, 2002) San Francisco (Sunnyside, 2008) Brazilian Dream (Sunnyside, 2019)