Nadia Petra(roja) has lived a double musical life as a Canadian children’s entertainer in the mid 1980’s, and more recently as a jazz singer. As a children’s performer, she’s toured Canada, the United States, and Singapore and has two nationally acclaimed albums to her credit. Perhaps it is her experience performing for young people that makes her such a warm and accessible jazz singer. Nadia has also been noted for the emotional truth she uncovers in the lyrics of the jazz standards, and for the honesty of her vocal delivery.

Nadia has studied with renowned jazz arranger and vocal coach Phil Mattson and performed with the Toronto based vocal jazz choir OASIS as a soloist and alto singer. She was recently a guest artist with The Big Easy Swing Band and has been a featured performer at The Rex Hotel Jazz and Bar Grill, C’est What, and the Mezzetta Café Restaurant Jazz Series. Nadia is becoming familiar to a wider Ontario audience with main stage appearances at Trinity St. Paul’s Vocal Series, Mississauga Living Arts Centre, the Port Hope Jazz Festival and the Waterfront Festival in Cobourg, Ontario. Nadia is a versatile jazz artist equally at home in an intimate setting as a duo, or with her trio.