In Jazz Power Kiddos, your young person will learn healthy singing technique and movement. Most importantly, your young person will join a community of creative young people who will enter the world of jazz together to learn powerful lessons about self-expression, leadership, collaboration, and diversity.

Jazz Power Kiddos is led by veteran arts educator Sofia Tossello. Originally from Cordoba, Argentina, Sofa Tosello is a vocalist and educator based in New York City for the past 23 years. Her music is rooted in the variety of Latin American cancion traditions, including tango, chacarera, bolero filin, son, zamba, and bossa nova. Tosello prefers to see herself as a border-crosser, not bound by the logic of genre and Christopher Loundon, writing in Jazz Times, notes "The purity of Tosello's voice is matched by the vibrancy of her emotional palette and inventiveness of her cross-cultural technique. The next wave in Latin American Jazz may well begin with Tosello". Sofia has a masters degree in jazz performance from Queens College, CUNY, teaches college students at New Jersey City University and young children at Jazz at Lincoln Center's WeBop program. This is her third year on the faculty of Jazz Power Initiative.

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*Jazz Power Initiative headquarters (JPI) at 5030 Broadway, NY, NY, 10034

You may make an optional additional donation which will be used to help cover the cost of artists working with students. Support comes from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Hispanic Federation with The Miranda Family Fund, The New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, City Council Member Carmen de la Rosa, Common Sense Fund, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, and New York-Presbyterian.