Jazz Vocal Trailblazer: Thana Alexa

Thana Alexa Pavelić is a Grammy nominated jazz vocalist, composer, arranger, and producer whose music pushes boundaries from jazz, global and electronic soundscapes, placing importance on social activism, mental health awareness & uplifting female voices. Her 2025 project Resonance, is a song cycle that explores how music and sound frequencies can trigger physiological and molecular reactions in the body and affect mental health.
One of Alexa’s most important collaborations has been with her husband, four-time Grammy winning drummer, Antonio Sánchez (composer for the Oscar winning Birdman film and drummer with Pat Metheny for 20 years). Together they have recorded nine albums between Alexa’s projects and Sánchez’s groups Migration and Bad Hombre, and most recently were commission by University of California Northridge to write Existencia, a piece written for voice, drums and physical movement.
“A radiant voice…” – DOWNBEAT
“…a jazz singer with a global perspective…” – NY TIMES
Thana Alexa - voice/ loops / fx / percussion
Rachel Eckroth - piano & keys / voice
Kaveh Rastegar - bass / voice
Jacqueline Acevedo - percussion / voice