Maria Pia De Vito

Maria Pia de Vito (b. 1960) is an Italian jazz singer, composer, and arranger. Born in Naples, de Vito studied opera, contemporary singing, musical theory, and harmony, and started her musical career in 1976 as a singer and guitarist (and, later, as a pianist) in groups specialising in music from the Mediterranean and the Balkans. Since the 1980s she has been active on the jazz scene as a singer, performing and collaborating with, among others, Kenny Wheeler