Ashlynn Manning Teng is a singer, composer, and music teacher living in Charlottesville, VA, originally from Montauk, NY. 
She moved to VA from CO, where she was the lead singer with David Williams' Trickster Carousel, an original cabaret swing band in Boulder, CO. In 2017, she co-created the gypsy jazz string band Chez Coucou.
Previously, she fronted the Hot Club of Montauk, playing the Django Reinhardt songbook around the Hamptons. She has always connected with classic artistry in jazz and Broadway's golden eras, genres that she and her mother, Lisa Manning Batchelder, performed together throughout her childhood. 

Ashlynn studied voice and musicology at Oberlin College, and lived in New Zealand for a year before moving to Brooklyn, where she spent 7 years co-creating the comedic, sometimes political, balls-to-the-wall burlesque trio-turned-pop-duo Suspicious Package. She and co-conspirator Emily Doubilet coined a genre they called “Bio-Pop”: music and videos inspired by the miraculous biodiversity on the planet Earth. 

Ashlynn loves the freedom and collective expression of vocal improvisation, and studies the spontaneous and joyful improvisatin techniques of Rhiannon, Bobby McFerrin, and their collaborators. 

Other vocal styles include: soul, R&B, downtempo electro, meditative mantras, and EDM. Her style has been likened at times to Barbara Streisand, Ella Fitzgerald, Deva Premal, Alicia Keys, and Lady Gaga. Electronic tracks on this page are self-produced using Ableton Live.

Creative inspiration comes from awesome living creatures (especially of the sea), indigenous or traditional musical styles that call out the fire within (Taiko drumming, Maori chants, South African freedom songs, Brazilian drum corps....), singing that comes from the soul, colored with a little magic (Björk, Nina Simone, Celia Cruz, Ray Charles, traditional English or Irish folk ballads, Portuguese Fado) and grand sensational pop stage productions (Eurovision, Superbowl halftime shows, Olympic opening ceremonies, the Met, EDM outdoor festivals, Alvin Ailey...) to name a few. 

More musical influences: Pink Martini, Avalon Jazz Band, Mariachi Flor de Toloache, Jacques Brel,  Lila Downs, Celia Cruz, Nouvelle Vague, Raffaella Carra, Annie Lennox, Chrissy Hynde, Paul Simon, Michael Jackson, Phantogram, Phalaeh, ChVrches, Florence and the Machine, Phil Spector's Motown machine, Tina Turner, The Knife...

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