Valentina Shelton is a singer, pianist, and songwriter from Los Angeles, with a BM in jazz voice and piano from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. Having won multiple student Downbeat Awards (both in voice and songwriting), she was also invited to perform several hour concerts on South Florida’s WDNA Jazz Radio, with her trio. She began working professionally as a singer across South Florida both in combos, big band, and as solo singer/pianist, while finishing her degree, and is now an in demand artist working regularly in the Los Angeles area.

With passion in both arranging and composition she incorporates jazz and r&b into her contemporary sound. Her wide ranging tastes are influenced by her Slavic/Balkan background (speaking Serbo-Croatian), spending some of her childhood in New Orleans, and having been raised in a home filled with world music to opera. Valentina also speaks French and is working on a collection of French songs for a forthcoming album.

She recently released her debut single entitled “Waiting for You,” with a series of other singles, including re-imagined jazz standards, lined up for release over the next few months.

Also a working actor, Valentina just finished a role in the new musical “Bull Durham,” (based on the 1988 baseball film).