Anaïs Reno is a New York City-based jazz singer and composer who studied jazz performance at SUNY Purchase. Having been a YoungArts winner for four years, she has received several accolades including the Ben Tucker jazz award in the American Traditions Competition, the Mabel Mercer competition and the Julie Wilson award.

Anaïs has performed in venues such as Birdland, Carnegie Hall, Dizzy’s Club, Madison Square Garden, the Caramoor Jazz Festival, PizzaExpress as part of the London Jazz Festival, the Edinburgh Jazz Festival, and others. In 2021, her debut album, “Lovesome Thing”, celebrating Ellington and Strayhorn, rose to number 6 on the jazz chart; in the same year, she took part in a video with NYCNext celebrating the reopening of New York after Covid-19 singing Billy Joel’s “New York State of Mind” alongside a variety of stars including Idina Menzel and Stephen Colbert, and sang “America the Beautiful” for the Mets/Yankees 9/11 game on national television.

Anaïs released a live record with London’s PizzaExpress in February of 2024 and released another in May of 2025 titled “Lady of the Lavender Mist”, under Club44 with Peter Bernstein, David Wong and Joe Farnsworth.