Nikki’s career’s taking off

NEW YORK — Nikki Yanofsky has been scatting her way across some of music’s most hallowed stages, including Carnegie Hall, but don’t label her a jazz singer.

At just 16, she doesn’t want to be pigeonholed. She loves all genres of music and takes her cues from the likes of jazz icon Ella Fitzgerald as well as from Led Zeppelin, whose classic rock riff from Fool In the Rain finds its way onto her first studio CD, Nikki.

The new album combines standards and originals that Yanofsky co-wrote with veteran songsmiths Jesse Harris and Ron Sexsmith.

Yanofsky says the three would seclude themselves in the basement...

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