Kristin Berardi

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Kristin Berardi
Born1981
Koumala, Queensland, Australia
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s)Singer

Kristin Berardi, who originates from Koumala, Queensland, is an Australian jazz singer. [1] [2] Her album with the Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra, Kristin Berardi Meets the Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra, was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2011. [3]

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She won the International Vocal Competition of the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2006.

Berardi's version of "Strangers in the Night" was used as background music in a television advertisement for Audi automobiles in 2020. [4]

Discography

Studio albums

TitleDetails
Kristin Berardi & James Sherlock
(with James Sherlock)
The Kristin Berardi Band
(as The Kristin Berardi Band)
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Jazzhead (HEAD093)
  • Format: CD, digital download
If You Were There
(with James Sherlock)
  • Released: 2009 [5]
  • Label:
  • Format: CD, digital download
Kristin Berardi Meets the Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra
(with the Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra)
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Jazzhead (HEAD 141)
  • Format: CD, digital download
Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out
(with James Sherlock)
  • Released: February 2014 [6]
  • Label:
  • Format: CD, digital download
Where or When
  • Released: 2 October 2015 [7]
  • Label: ABC Jazz (475 9263)
  • Format: CD, digital download
Hope in My Pocket
(with Sean Foran & Rafael Karlen)
  • Released: 2 October 2015 [8]
  • Label:
  • Format: CD, digital download
Just As You Are
(as The Kristin Berardi Band)
  • Released: March 2016 [9]
  • Label:
  • Format: CD, digital download
Our Songs, Not Songs
(with Sam Anning)
  • Released: September 2019 [10]
  • Label: Earshift Music
  • Format: CD, digital download
Haven
(with Sean Foran & Rafael Karlen featuring Pascal Schumacher)
  • Released: November 2020 [11]
  • Label: Earshift Music (EAR029)
  • Format: CD, digital download
TitleDetails
Swallows & Swans
(As Florian Ross Quintet featuring Kristin Berardi)
  • Released: 2018
  • Label: Toy Piano Records (TPR 201801)
  • Format: CD, digital download

Awards

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. [12]

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2011 Kristin Berardi Meets the Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album Nominated

Queensland Music Awards

The Queensland Music Awards (previously known as Q Song Awards) are annual awards celebrating Queensland, Australia's brightest emerging artists and established legends. They commenced in 2006. [13]

YearNominee / workAwardResult (wins only)
2016 [14] [15] "Hope in My Pocket" (with Sean Foran & Rafael Karlen)Jazz AwardWon
2021 [16] "Falling" (with Danny Widdicombe and Trichotomy)Jazz AwardWon

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