Despite growing up in a musical family and grafting away for years performing
and teaching across the world, it was a stint serving in the army that finally
helped Alexis Cole establish herself as a silky-voiced singer on the US jazz
circuit.
Born in Queens, New York, both her grandmother and father were jazz singers and
pianists who taught her jazz standards and took her to clubs at an early age.
When the family moved to Florida, Cole studied at a performing arts school and
began her career in the early 1990s singing in hotel bars on South Beach.
After graduating with a ...