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"Cécile McLorin Salvant grew up in Florida with a Haitian father and a French mother, but has been studying jazz for the last three years in Aix-en-Provence, France, with Jean-Francois Bonnel, a connoisseur of early swing. As a jazz singer she seems both familiar and a little recherché."
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