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Melissa Aldana
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Melissa Aldana is a Grammy-nominated Chilean tenor saxophonist born in Santiago in 1988. She became the first female instrumentalist and first South American to win the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in 2013, and is known for her fluid harmonic lines, deeply meditative compositions, and work as a bandleader with her quartet and the all-star collective ARTEMIS.Browse all performers