Daiva Starinskaite

Originally from Lithuania, Daiva has been performing in music festivals and TV shows, since she was thirteen. She has possessed a passion for jazz and soul from a very young age, in her teens she started listening to a lot of hip-hop and writing her own verses. In 2006 she was awarded the award for best Hip-hop artist in Lithuania. She left her hometown to follow her dream of taking her brand of music to the wider world, she moved to France to study jazz in the prestigious Paris conservatoire. Daiva has won a number of international singing competitions and awards in France, Finland and the Baltics. With her funk/soul band she was one of the Eurovision national finalists for Lithuania. She is admired for her deeply soulful and powerful voice. She has been performing and recording with many famous jazz musicians (Ted Curson, Robert Glasper, Ran Blake) from Europe, USA, UK. Daiva has sung in a number of different function bands over the last 10 years, also she has recorded albums with her own band and has toured across the U.K. and Europe. Her songs have been playing on UK radio stations XFM, Radio 1 BBC, and other well known radio stations across the world. She has been the opening act for De Phazz, Candy Dulfer, Gotan Project, Shaggy and Snoop Dogg. Daiva’s vast songbook ranges from funky classics and modern hits with an original twist to golden jazz standards and chilled Bossa Nova tunes.