# Quiana Lynell has been named the winner of the sixth annual Sarah Vaughan: Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2017/11/16/quiana/
- Published: 2017-11-16T22:47:53+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**The Texas-raised, Louisiana-based singer Quiana Lynell has been named the winner
of the sixth annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, held on 
Sunday as part of the TD James Moody Jazz Festival, at the New Jersey Performing
Arts Center (NJPAC).**

The prize for the first-place award, also known as the Sassy, is a record-contract
offer from the Concord label and $5,000. Second place ($1,500) went to Tatiana “
LadyMay” Mayfield, from Fort Worth, Tex.; and the third-place ($500) winner was 
Christine Fawson, a Berklee faculty member and gifted trumpeter. The competition
finals were held before a live audience at NJPAC’s Victoria Theater and judged by
a panel including WBGO radio personality Gary Walker; bandleader and composer TS
Monk, the son of jazz icon Thelonious Monk; and acclaimed professional vocalists
Vanessa Rubin, Ann Hampton Callaway and Will Downing. The two other finalists competing
that day were Tiffany Austin, who has made a name for herself on the Northern California
scene, and New York-based vocalist Fabio Giacalone.

In its relatively brief lifetime, the Sassy Awards program has named as its victors
and finalists some of the finest young singers currently at work. Jazzmeia Horn,
who won the 2013 contest, released her acclaimed debut, A Social Call, this year
on the Concord Music Group’s Prestige imprint. More than 600 aspiring singers, both
men and women, applied for this year’s competition.

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640)

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