Margot Roi

A new jazz sound combining pop/roots/jazz artistically arranged with rich, full vocals creating a unique distinctive approach.

Vocalist Margot Roi delivers a pronounced and powerful performance with an exuberant, unfettered approach
“When I perform vocally, I want the audience to experience a little fun. I choose lyrics that intensify the emotive colourations of my interpretive style, to further inhabit the textured atmosphere laid down by the other musicians.”

Hamilton/Oakville ON, native Margot Roi combines both her artistic and musical background to create a unique, flexible style of language resulting in a mesmerizing effec
Margot’s arrangements and interpretations cross-pollinate traditional and contemporary elements of jazz, pop and folk/roots standards to create a fresh textured sound

Admiral Entertainment 2012 New Music award for Best Jazz! Canadian Music Week 2012 (CMW) selected Margot Roi for a showcase spotlight during CMW’s first Jazz Festival. Winner of the “Best Female Jazz Artist” awarded by the Toronto Exclusive On-line Magazine and nominated for a New Music 2011 Award for Best Ja
OurStage selected her to compete in the “Artist On The Verge” contest which she placed top ten. Top ten jazz and top ten blues followe
Margot has been given an award by Billboard World Song for one of her original songs “A Place For Me”. It has also been included in the CD compilation “Songs of Canada 2010: (Anthology of Canadian Songwriters)”.

Margot’s current CD release ‘A Place For Me’ is an eclectic collection of jazz and contemporary songs that approach the subject of love from every possible perspective to affirm a place in your heart. Margot arranged traditional and contemporary standards including the Beatles, Gordon Lightfoot, Cole Porter and her original compositions to reflect her diverse musical nature. Recorded with Toronto’s top jazz musicians: Kelly Jefferson, Reg Schwager, William Carn, Mike Downes, Ted Warren, Brian O’Kane, Mark Kelso, Ted Quinlan, John Johnson, Alan Hetherington, Will Jarvis and Anthony Panacci.

“This vocalist possesses an authoritative delivery that is counterbalanced with sincerity and her emotively generated lyricism…” -Glenn Astarita -ejazznews.

Margot has studied music at the University of Windsor, ON and vocals at The Academy of Canadian Vocals. She has also studied with The Toronto Singing Studio, Bob Mover and Mitch Seekins. 

" The sparkly, effervescent and yet substantial vocals of singer Margot Roi will blow you away. Her lively stage personality engages music lovers of all ages." -Megan Morgan – Press Photographer

Warmly delicious, full bodied contemporary jazz vocals with a hint of smokiness that will envelop and surprise you!

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