Natalie Douglas

Natalie Douglas is a 21st-century vocalist with a strong foundation in the traditional pop vocals of the American Songbook and an equally fierce devotion to the modern jazz, blues, rock & country influences of her childhood. Like her idol, Nina Simone, Natalie is drawn to lyrics that tell compelling stories no matter the genre.

Douglas is a two-time Bistro, Nightlife, and fourteen-time MAC Award Winner, and BroadwayWorld Cabaret Best Vocalist Award winner, whose appearances include Birdland Jazz Club, Carnegie Hall, Cafe Carlyle, The Town Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Crazy Coqs & The Pheasantry in London, plus numerous Cabaret Conventions presented by The Mabel Mercer Foundation (which has honored her with the Margaret Whiting Award, the Donald F. Smith Award and the 2024 Mabel Mercer Award). She is also a 2024 recipient of the Gaudium Award presented by the Breukelein Institute. In May 2025, Natalie accepted the VERA Award from The Voice Foundation alongside other 2025 honorees: Renée Fleming & Chandrika Tandon. Natalie’s portrait has joined the illustrious collection of legendary musicians on Birdland’s Wall of Fame.

She has produced & performed in 87 concerts at her musical home, Birdland Jazz Club in New York City - most notably her TRIBUTES series, celebrating artists she loves including Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Elvis, Dolly Parton, Nat King Cole, Dame Shirley Bassey, Ella Fitzgerald, Roberta Flack, Joni Mitchell, Sammy Davis, Jr., Lena Horne, Barbra Streisand, and Cher. The latest addition to her four-CD catalog is the 2025 MAC Award-winning “Back to the Garden,” on Club44 Records. Her CDs are currently available on iTunes, Amazon.com, Spotify, and her website: nataliedouglas.com, as well as on all streaming platforms.

In addition, Douglas has made her mark as a much sought-after educator and actor – she is an expert instructor for the MOSAIC Foundation, the Eugene O’Neill Cabaret & Performance Conference, the Cayman Arts Festival, and the Mabel Mercer Foundation, where she has been named Education Director. She can currently be seen in the award-winning documentary “Sloane: A Jazz Singer,” which celebrates another of her heroes, the late, great Carol Sloane, at domestic & international film festivals. Natalie holds a bachelor’s degree from USC in Psychology, Theatre, and Women’s Studies and a master’s degree from UCLA in Psychology and Theatre.

“The range Ms. Douglas exhibits, vocal and emotional, could make a cynic believe in Santa. She lives inside the music, lives for the music, it is joyful and a beautiful sight to behold.”
- Stephen Mosher, BroadwayWorld.com

“Douglas is the kind of performer who is hard to review, because she's so undoubtedly talented and good at what she does - the singing, sharing, entertaining, all of it - and frankly how can my words do her music justice? They can't: she has to be seen to be believed.”
Karis Rogerson, BroadwayWorld.com

“Extraordinary. A true force of nature, she squeezes a phenomenal amount of material into the evening. Yet by the end, you simply want her to carry on into the small hours.
Clive Davis, The Times (UK)