Marie Fleur

Marie Fleur (MacGillis) is an American-born jazz/blues vocalist and songwriter.

She grew up in a rural town just north of Ann Arbor Michigan. If she wasn't at dance class or church, she'd most likely be exploring the forest, talking to the animals like a feral child. Her enchantment with the wilderness moved the 9-year-old Marie to fill several notebooks with songs about saving the world, along with a few about the habits of foxes.

Marie's mother, known around the house as "Blues Mama", exposed her to such revered vocalists as Patsy Cline, Ruth Brown, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Anita O'Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Connie Boswell, Sarah Vaughan, Mildred Bailey and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Spurred on my her mother's influence, Marie developed an obsession with Golden-Age Hollywood-the films, the styles, the dance steps, and especially the music! read more