Smoky Salon Music

Smoky Salon is a one-woman band fronted by Samantha De Benedet. She is a Toronto-based singer, musician and songwriter. Her music combines the styles of Jazz, Folk, Pop and Musical Theatre. During the pandemic Samantha turned her living room into an old jazz lounge every night, playing the piano and singing all the classic jazz standards. Despite having no patrons, this is where Smoky Salon was born. Samantha began writing her own takes on jazz standards, giving a modern twist to songs with chord progressions that sound like they could be out of the Great American Songbook, lyrics that are akin to old movie musicals and her smoky vocal quality transporting us all to an old Jazz Bar. It helps if you imagine her draped across a grand piano, wearing a fabulous, glittering gown! Her main musical influences are Feist, Joni Mitchell, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Fats Waller, Laufey and Billie Eilish.