Recognized by The New York Times as “the most outstanding vocalist of our time”, Kurt Elling won the Grammy® for Best Jazz Vocal Album with “Dedicated To You”, however, all the other nine albums he recorded in the meantime have been targeted nomination for Grammy®. 

In the specialty press, the critical recognition has perhaps been even more pronounced, with Elling winning fourteen consecutive times (between 2000 and 2013) the title of Best Male Vocalist in the DownBeat critics polls._cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b -136bad5cf58d_

In the early years of his career, he had received, for four consecutive years (1997-2000), the title of Talent Deserving Wider Recognition by the critics of that important jazz publication, in whose readers' votes he has obtained similar recognition, expressed in eight awards. as Best Male Vocalist.

The Jazz Journalists Association also distinguished him eight times as “Male Jazz Singer of the Year”, having been awarded the title of Best Male Vocalist in 2011 and 2012 by critics of Jazztimes magazine, a magazine whose readers have already awarded him eight times as Male Vocalist of the Year, and awarded his album “Broadway 1619” the Best New Release award in 2012.

In 2013, Elling was awarded the title of International Jazz Artist of the Year in the United Kingdom by the Jazz FM Awards, which follows several other awards around the world (Award of the Year 2013 by Blue Note Milano; Scottish Jazz Awards; Jazz Ambassador by the Silesian Jazz Festival, in Poland; Vocalist of the Year and Record of the Year by JazzWeek magazine; InternationalMale Singer of the Year and Record of the Year by the German ECHO Jazz; Edison award, Netherlands; award Billie Holiday by the Académie du Jazz de Paris).

Kurt Elling will perform on the 3rd of July at the Funchal Jazz Festival, bringing with him his new album, released on the 9th of June, which goes by the name of Passion World , accompanied by a luxury band, of which part pianist and organist Gary Versace, guitarist John McLean, bassist Clark Sommers and drummer Christian Euman.