Julia Keefe, (Nez Perce) was born in 1989 in Seattle, WA. She has lived on both coasts of the U.S. Several of her formative years were spent in Kamiah, Idaho on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation. Recently, she graduated with honors from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music in Coral Gables, FL, studying jazz vocal performance.
Julia began singing jazz while in the seventh grade at St. George’s School in Spokane. She was a participant at the annual Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival in Moscow, ID for five years as a soloist and in award winning choir and ensemble groups. In 2007, Julia won an outstanding vocal soloist award at the Lionel Hampton Festival.
