Linda Kosut

Backstage Magazine’s Bistro/BMI award winner, Linda Kosut, with her warm, dark sound, swings jazz, pop and folk - easily singing a repertoire from the standard to the obscure with fresh…

Album art for Easy Come, Easy Go

About Linda Kosut

Backstage Magazine’s Bistro/BMI award winner, Linda Kosut, with her warm, dark sound, swings jazz, pop and folk - easily singing a repertoire from the standard to the obscure with fresh interpretations.  Linda has performed across the country from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Seattle.

Kosut grew up in the Bronx (NY), and as she tells it, had a lifelong dream of singing and performing  - yet she did not make that into reality until "later in life."  But, since making that shift in her life, and "putting one foot in front of the other, I have created opportunities and achieved a success with my music that I did not think was possible."

Her first two CDs received national acclaim. Life is but a dream, a selection of jazz, pop and folk tunes was named one of the Top 10 CDs of 2003 by Cabaret Hotline; and, Long As You're Living:  the songs & poetry of Oscar Brown Jr., paid tribute to the late jazz singer, songwriter, and activist, and received both Backstage Magazine’s prestigious Bistro Award – the BMI Award for Outstanding Recording, and two MAC nominations (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs) for Best Female Jazz Singer and Best Jazz Recording.

And now her newest CD, Easy Come, Easy Go which pays tribute to Johnny Green (composer, arranger, orchestra leader, Oscar winner, composer of Body And Soul the #1 song on the Jazz Standard charts), is being released on October 15, 2014 with a performance at San Francisco’s Feinstein’s at the Nikko.

A mainstay in the San Francisco Bay Area music community, Linda is also a singers’ coach, providing innovative ways to coach vocalists, either in performance technique, learning how to record, or providing showcase opportunities for aspiring performers.  First and foremost, Linda is committed to inspiring and encouraging other singers to grow as performers.

Linda lives in San Francisco with her husband, 2 dogs, 2 turtles, 2 chickens and thousands of fresh-water fish – you’ll just have to ask her in person!

Easy Come, Easy Go

Album art for Easy Come, Easy GoWith her warm and distinctive sound, cabaret-influenced jazz vocalist Linda Kosut brings her storytelling skills and emotional interpretations to a collection of tunes by Johnny Green, including some relatively…