Mina Agossi

Mina Agossi
Mina Agossi
	Mina Agossi at the Charlie Jazz Festival, July 2005
Born	6 January 1972 (age 52); Besançon, France
Notable work	Voice & Bass
Style	Jazz

Mina Agossi (6 January 1972, Besançon) is a French singer-songwriter.

Biography

Agossi, whose mother is from France and whose father is from

Well You Needn't", Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child", Pink Floyd's "Money" and The Beatles's "And I Love Her". After years in Spain she returned to France and then moved to Great Britain in 1993, where she worked with Vincent Guérin.^[2]

After the album Voice & Bass, she became increasingly famous in the French jazz scene and also appeared in the United States. Her album EZ Pass to Brooklyn was recorded with Alexander Hiele (bass) and Bertrand Perrin (drums) in New York in 2001, which was influenced by the

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal in 2007 and in the Blue Note in New York. In 2010 she worked on Just Like a Lady with guitarist and composer Phil Reptil.^[2]

She co-produced the music documentary Mina Agossi, une voix nomade (2007) with Arte, which shows her on two international tours with Jean-Henri Meunier, where they also visited their fathers in their homeland.^[1]

Awards

Agossi was nominated for the ADAMI in 2005 and for the Victoires du Jazz in 2006. In December 2010 she was knighted as a Chevalier dans l'ordre national du Mérite.^[3]^[4]