Connie Evingson, born in 1962 in Hibbing, Minnesota, is an American singer known for her work in jazz and pop music. She began singing at age five in church choirs and later earned a Bachelor’s degree in Music and Anthropology from the University of Minnesota. Evingson started performing professionally in 1980 and in 1986 joined the vocal-jazz group Moore by Four. As a solo artist, she released her debut album I Have Dreamed in 1995, followed by Some Cats Know (1999) and Gypsy in My Soul (2004). She has performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra under Doc Severinsen, at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis and Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, and with the JazzMN Orchestra. Her 2014 album All the Cats Join In, recorded with the John Jorgenson Quintet, explores the gypsy-jazz style.
