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Wendy Pedersen

Wendy Pedersen is one of South Florida’s favorite performers. Her high-energy vocal delivery, with deep, convincing emotion has been impacting audiences for many years.

Wendy got her Master's degree in Jazz Performance from Florida Intrenational University and is a graduate of the University of Miami’s Studio Music and Jazz Vocal program. She began her singing career in high school, but her earliest memory is poring through her mom’s record collection, practically wearing out the vinyl on Elton John and Beatles records. Eventually, her heart found its way to jazz and it has felt like home ever since.

Wendy has won many awards including the Southern Bell/Pace “Jazz Artist of the Year” and a Miami New Times “best vocalist”. Leonard Pitts of The Miami Herald said, “when she sings, her voice an elegant melismatic instrument, evokes the standard emotions, yes, but deeper longings and muted desires.” She has toured the globe as a featured soloist both on her own as well with other artists, and has headlined festivals in The United States, Madrid, Spain and Russia.

Wendy Pedersen’s discography includes her debut CD Me + Three,

Ho Ho Ho, Under The Influence, Boy Meets Girl, and her 2016 release We Two with Jim Gasior.

Wendy is also a highly sought after studio singer and has recorded for or performed with artists such as Shakira, Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, Arturo Sandoval, Rita Moreno, Alejandro Sanz, Julio Iglesias, Enrique Iglesias, James Brown and countless others.


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Album Review

Jorge Garcia: Dedicated to You

Read "Dedicated to You" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Gigi Gryce's turbo-charged “Minority," which opens Cuban-born guitarist Jorge Garcia's Dedicated to You, serves as a reminder of how much talent the world lost when alto saxophonist Richie Cole died in May 2020. And if that weren't enough to persuade any doubters, the vibrant “This One's for Richie" (based, appropriately, on the standard “There Will Never Be Another You") readily affirms that opinion. While, alas, those are the only tracks on which Cole performs, they alone make the album well ...

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Wendy Pedersen & Jim Gasior: We Two

Read "We Two" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Long-time friends and two of South Florida's most enduring and favorite performers for a decade and more, vocalist Wendy Pedersen and pianist Jim Gasior present a session of light vocal jazz on We Two, their first solo album together offering new interpretations of the music from Rodgers & Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, the Gershwin brothers and many others. Two Educators and graduates from the University of Miami Frost School of Music, the duo have been musical collaborators ...

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Great Jazz Vocalist Performs Worldwide On WLRN's South Fla. Arts Beat

Great Jazz Vocalist Performs Worldwide On WLRN's South Fla. Arts Beat

Source: Ed Bell

Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 Featuring Wendy Pedersen One of South Florida's treasured musicians, Wendy Pedersen is a mainstay of the local music scene. A graduate of The University of Miami's Studio Music and Jazz Vocal program, she has won numerous awards over her years of singing. Among them the Southern Bell/P.A.C.E. Jazz Artist of the Year and Best Vocalist from Miami New Times, which ...

​ "...She can steam up your contact lenses from 100 feet away!" -Doug Adrianson, The Miami Herald

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Dedicated to You

Self Produced
2022

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We Two

Self Produced
2016

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