Thisbe Vos

Thisbe Vos

Musicians | Instrument: Vocals | Location: Irvine

Thisbe Vos sings like Peggy Lee and writes like Cole Porter, this is the real deal.

—John Segars, WUCF Orlando

Updated: December 20, 2023

Thisbe Vos is a Dutch jazz singer and songwriter living in Los Angeles. With songs that sound like the traditional classics from the '40s and '50s, she is one of the bright new voices that is contributing to the revival of romanticism in jazz in the 21st century. Her fans say that they love her unique, clear voice that reminds them of Doris Day and Peggy Lee. Critics hail her songwriting as “the real thing,” likening her work to that of Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. 

Thisbe grew up in a small town close to Amsterdam. At the age of 17 she joined the UK's No 1 swing band "The Jive Aces" as their first female singer and toured with them for three years, visiting 80 cities in Europe and the United States before the age of 21. 

She started writing her own songs after listening to hundreds of hours of classic jazz in the touring van, including recordings by Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington and Peggy Lee. 

She moved to Los Angeles in 2008 and recorded a solo album of standards and originals on her own record label, Prime Productions. Upon its release, she quickly garnered a sizeable fanbase online and subsequenly crowdfunded and released another four albums. 

She has won several music awards, including "Jazz Song of the Year" and "Holiday Album of the Year" from the International Music & Entertainment Association, and an honorable mention from the International Songwriting Competition. She was a finalist in the Great American Song Contest of 2015. 

Her original songs have been featured in primetime TV shows like “Bull,” “The Catch” and “The Blacklist” on ABC, NBC and CBS, as well as in shows and movies on premium streaming services like Disney+ and The Hallmark Channel. Her music has received airplay on over 230 traditional jazz radio stations in the US and Canada, as well as on the Sirius XM Real Jazz Channel.

In recent years, Thisbe has performed in venues around Southern California including as a guest artist at The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, at the Cicada Club and at the Sweet & Hot Jazz Festival in Los Angeles, and at Bayside Restaurant in Newport Beach. For two years, she performed weeky with her own band at the Marriott Hotel in Woodland Hills. 

Thisbe has taken a break from performing since 2020 but continues to write and record songs—her latest album "Renaissance In Blue" released on Prime Productions in 2021.

Awards

The International Music & Entertainment Awards 2014: Jazz Song of the Year - "Shanghai Blues" (Won)

The International Music & Entertainment Awards 2014: Jazz Artist of the Year (Nominated)

The International Songwriting Competition 2014, Honorable Mention - "House of Make Believe" 

The International Music & Entertainment Awards 2015: Holiday Album of the Year - "A Jazzy Christmas" (Won)

The Great American Song Contest 2015, Finalist - "It's Beginning to Snow"


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Thisbe Vos: Under Your Spell

Read "Under Your Spell" reviewed by Edward Blanco


A Southern California Girl with a love of standards and romantic music, Thisbe Vos is not your typical female vocalist performing Louis Prima/ Keely Smith duets in a jazz band. Born in the Netherlands, Vos began exploring music by playing the harp and doing musical theatre and only after joining the British swing band, The Jive Aces, did she begin to embrace the style of love songs, ballads and swing that are the focus of her music. Her debut album ...

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Thisbe Vos: Under Your Spell

Read "Under Your Spell" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


First, there is that name...Thisbe Vos. It is not merely exotic; it is something much more than that, something mythic. Dutch-born, living the dream in America's land of Milk and Honey--LA--Vos, by her looks, voice, repertoire, composing...demands attention, and gets it without ever raising her voice. Her debut, two years percolating, Under Your Spell is a fully realized throwback that doesn't sound a day over the rainbow. Made up of five standards and six smacking, swinging originals, Under Your Spell ...

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“Thisbe Vos sings like Peggy Lee and writes like Cole Porter, this is the real deal.” —John Segars, WUCF Orlando, Florida

“Thisbe is outstanding. One of the best vocalists around.” —Mark Landesman, WWOZ New Orleans

“Vos' recording gives ballroom smooth and torchlight swing a modern gloss. The songs have a Peggy Lee-style attractiveness and a Cole Porter-clad elegance.” —Susan Frances, Yahoo

“Thisbe Vos reminds us what used to excite us back in the days when the spotlight in clubs and on the concert stage focused on a beautiful woman who could move us with a song in a way that we finally heard the message of the lyrics, the delight of the musical line, and in essence - the commitment to the moment that made that experience special. Not only is this ‘pretty woman’ a talented singer, she is also a composer and this, her second recording, includes seven of her own compositions. She is spicy, languid, peppy and dreamy as each of the songs call for these expressions of love. Thisbe Vos is a gentle giant of a talent. She doesn't need to make a lot of hullabaloo with her presentation or her compositions or her singing presence. She just simply and quietly - conquers!” —Grady Harp, Amazon “Vine Voice”

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