Voted 2025 #1 Rising Star Male Vocalist by DownBeat Magazine! | Info & Tkts at JazzCoterie.com

Los Angeles-based singer and composer Michael Mayo creates from the heart without filter or pre-tense, allowing his voice to transmit raw emotion above an ever-evolving backdrop of jazz, neo-soul and R&B. He has performed and toured with Kneebody, Jacob Collier, Christian Sands, Josh Groban, Nate Smith and Herbie Hancock.

Mayo went to the New England Conservatory of Music, where he received a bachelor's degree in jazz vocal performance. In 2015. Michael became the third vocalist ever to be accepted to the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz at University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Dianne Reeves.

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