Bands & DJs

Nicolle Rochelle was born in New Jersey, near New York City, the official home of “Showbiz”. She quickly found her niche singing, acting and dancing. At the age of 7 she started working professionally in the theater, Broadway musicals, TV shows and movies.

She arrived in France in 2006 to play the lead role of Josephine Baker in the musical by well known director Jérôme Savary. After 4 years of touring internationally, she decided to settle in Europe. She continued to sing traditional French songs, jazz, boogie woogie, blues, soul, hip hop and pop. She worked with groups such as The Hot Sugar Band, Nikki et Jules, The Duke Orchestra, The Fats Boys, The Big Five, Ginkgoa, The Hot Antic Band, The Fantastic Harlem Drivers, The Barcelona Jazz Orchestra, The Swiss Yerba Buena Creole Rice Jazz Band and many other orchestras on the international jazz scene.

Nicolle is also a trained dancer, she continues to study and practice swing, samba, reggaeton, hip hop, contemporary dance and Butoh. She regularly offers classes in house, jazz roots and SOMA Breathe, a breathing technique based on yoga and science using rhythmic music and visualization to optimize health and positive energy in the human body and in life.

Recently she presented her personal project, Modern GEAIsha in Paris, Salzburg, Tokyo and the Ukraine. She continues to develop this concept concerts that draws on her dance and theatrical training as well as combining Japanese Kanji painting with jazz, hip hop and electro. In modern GEIAsha she also explores themes of life linked to humanism and activism.

Find all of her projects and dates on www.nicollerochelle.com

✨Based in Paris, and featuring some of the finest musicians of the French Swing and Jazz scene, Hot Sugar Band has performed all around the world. Its unique, highly recognizable sound, at the crossing of John Kirby's sextet, Django Reinhardt big band works, Count Basie and Duke Ellington's classics, in addition to the band's endless energy on stage has contributed to make it one of the most-demanded bands in the world of swing.

The Hot Sugar Band is a real swingin time machine. One that takes you right back to the 1930's ballrooms of Harlem, straight into the golden age of Jazz. Their motto is to swing it and to make everybody around swing with them.

Gentlemen & Gangsters play hot jazz with all the flair and sophistication of true gentlemen, coupled with the ruthless brutality of hardened gangsters. Like a devious conspiracy from a bygone era, this shady syndicate of jazz kingpins plot for world domination from their secret location in a run down part of Gothenburg. Armed with drumsticks instead of knuckle dusters and trombones instead of tommy guns these deranged masterminds spread mayhem, joy, and decadence wherever they go.