Angela Verbrugge
was born and raised in Kingston, Ontario. Early on she played piano, trombone and guitar in addition to singing. While attracted to jazz, she started out as an actress in community theater. She moved to Toronto, earned a degree in Theatre Studies by the time she was 20, relocated to Vancouver, survived a car accident and cancer, and started a family. However Angela always wanted to sing jazz and in 2012 she started performing locally. Her singing talents were obvious from the start and her career began to gradually take off. She released her first album The Night We Couldn’t Say Good Night in 2019 which was followed by Love For Connoisseurs (a set of her originals) and Somewhere. Angela has since been featured on international tours (often with Ray Gallon), performed at many of Canada’s top jazz venues, and appeared at a variety of jazz festivals. Her recordings have all garnered many favorable reviews. Her future plans include dates in Italy, her first tour of the United States, and more recordings.

“Listen and be delighted. Her art is her own, and she offers rare pleasures. Angela's music brings joy. Her singing rests securly on deep emotional understanding. She understands the song, not only as notes and syllables on paper, but also the heart-messages it sends us. She conveys tenderness, thoughtfulness, wit and ardor; emotions and perceptions aimed right at us through her very human voice, its phrase-ending vibrato signifying a sweet earnestness.” - Michael Steinman, Jazz critic, JazzLives