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Elisabeth Kontomanou (1961, Lyon France) is a French jazz singer and composer who has lived in America and Sweden.

Kontomanou was brought up as an orphan. She moved to New York in the 1990s and then on to Stockholm where she was based when she recorded "Back to my Groove". This album includes covers of jazz songs which she sings in English.

In 1986, she founded the quartet "Conversation", which won the La Défense Jazz Festival competition. In 1986, she was hired by Michel Legrand for the movie "Moon Mask", while the pianist Alain Jean-Marie organizes her a tour of the Antilles. In 1995, she went to New York. Ten years later, she moved to Paris, where she composed the song "Waiting for Spring" and the album "Back to my Groove". In 2008, the album "Brewin 'the Blues", praised by the mainstream press, and it inspired the tour.

In 2006 and 2014, she appeared at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. In 2013, she appeared at the Tan Jazz Festival.

In 2006, she won the ‘Vocal Jazz Award’ of the Victoires du Jazz.

Elisabeth Kontomanou worked with artists from all musical backgrounds including Michel Legrand, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Alain Jean-Marie, Jean-Michel Pilc, Darryl Hall, Franck Amsallem, Toots Thielemans, Richard Bona, Stéphane Belmondo, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Leon Parker and Geri Allen.


Elisabeth Kontomanou - 1999 - Embrace
Elisabeth Kontomanou - 2000 - Hands and Incantation (with Jean-Michel Pilc)
Elisabeth Kontomanou - 2004 - Midnight Sun
Elisabeth Kontomanou - 2005 - Waitin' for Spring
Elisabeth Kontomanou - 2007 - Back to My Groove
Elisabeth Kontomanou - 2008 - Brewin' The Blues
Elisabeth Kontomanou - 2009 - Siren Song- Live at Arsenal
Elisabeth Kontomanou - 2012 - Secret of the Wind
Elisabeth Kontomanou - 2014 - Amoureuse