Sara Serpa

Sara Serpa is a jazz vocalist from Lisbon, Portugal.

Career For ten years Serpa studied classical piano and vocals, then studied jazz at the Lisbon Conservatory. After moving to Boston, she attended the Berklee College of Music. She recorded her debut album Praia (Inner Circle Music, 2008) the same year she received a master's degree from the New England Conservatory. In the DownBeat magazine Critics' Poll of 2019, she was voted the number one Rising Star among female vocalists. DownBeat named Intimate Strangers one of the top albums of 2022.

Serpa, Malika Zarra, Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, and Sofia Rei were the four vocalists of John Zorn's project Mycale.

Among the influences and musicians she admires, she has named Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan, Maria João, Billie Holiday, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Wayne Shorter, Bjork, Hermeto Pascoal, Theo Bleckmann, Brad Mehldau, and Bill Evans. Night Birds with Andre Matos (Robalo, 2023)