Sarah Marie Young
Biography Sarah Marie Young
Sarah Marie Young
born 1982 and raised in Indianapolis to a supportive bass player father and singer/ pianist mother. She was musically raised in a small Baptist church around gospel music. She is a self taught piano player and attended performing arts middle and highs schools for voice as a child. She wins the Indiana Gospel Meets Classical Voice in 2000. After high school she attends Indiana University for Classical Vocal performance. After two years she changes direction. She ends up in Chicago and starts a Bachelor's in jazz vocal performance with a tuition performance scholarship.
She reaches the semi-finals in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition, judged by Herbie Hancock, Diane Reeves, Kurt Elling, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Al Jarreau in 2010. A year later she enters the Montreux Jazz Vocal Competition, judged by Quincy Jones, and receives first prize. She decided to use the prize, a week in the Swiss mountains at Balik Farm Studios, to record a full length album of originals. The songs, a narrative of the cold Chicago winters, mixed into relationships with family, friends and lovers, bore “Too Many Februaries” in 2013, self released.!
