Viktorija Gečytė

Viktorija "Vik" Gečytė is a Paris-based singer and leader of various jazz and blues projects.

Vik premiered in public at age five in her native Lithuania and was regularly featured on TV as a child. In her teens, she schooled herself in global jazz by hitchhiking to music festivals around the country and started building repertoire by singing with various live bands.

At nineteen, thanks to a scholarship from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, Vik moved to the US and delved into the New York area jazz scene, while earning her BA in Mathematics-Economics. After graduation, she settled down in Paris and started performing internationally.

Since 2008, Vik has been touring and recording with veteran American bassist Gene Perla, formerly with Elvin Jones, Sonny Rollins, Nina Simone and Sarah Vaughan. Their second album together, "In The Moment", featuring Edsel Gomez on piano and Adam Nussbaum on drums, was released in early 2020 on P.M. Records.

In 2013, Vik co-lead an ambitious big band project with French pianist Julien Coriatt and his Orchestra. She contributed as lyricist and composer to Julien's exploratory journey through jazz, classical and folk music, with songs in her native tongue. Their album "Blue Lake" was released in 2015.

The Frankfurt Radio Big Band has invited her to perform two open-air concerts in Germany in 2018 and 2019. She continues to perform with big bands in France and Lithuania.

Elegant and swinging, Vik is often praised for her poise, great phrasing, impeccable timing and low velvet voice. "She's a class act" - says the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

"This is the first time I've ever applauded a kazoo solo!" exclaimed Jeff "Tain" Watts after hearing Vik play. She was gifted her first kazoo at Burning Man in 2017.

Vik is award winner of the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition 2019.

For Vik, singing is a musical conversation, a human endeavor, a never-ending journey.

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