"Tracye Eileen's performance at the JazzHall Hamburg was a breathtaking highlight of our celebration of 30 years of partnership between Hamburg and Chicago. Together with outstanding musicians from Hamburg, she delivered an unforgettable evening of jazz and soul that captivated our audience and brought the spirit of both cities to life.“

Tilmon Oberbeck, Director of Music

JallHall Hamburg

Hamburg, Germany - 2025

 

Chicago-born and raised and now Paris-based, Tracye Eileen is a Jazz/Soul R&B vocalist who has built her career between the US and European scenes. For years she worked as a performing and recording artist in Chicago, including a long-running residency at Buddy Guy's Legends. During her career Tracye has shared the stage with artists such as Babyface, The Stylistics, Mary Wilson, Chante Moore, After 7, and Buddy Guy himself. 

 

Her fourth album earned a Top 10 Album of 2022 mention from Jazz in Europe and drew strong reviews from across the globe, particularly from European countries — a response that made clear her musical direction connected strongly with listeners there. A visit to jazzahead! in Bremen shortly afterwards helped crystallise where Tracye wanted to go artistically. Hearing what was happening on European stages — and in particular the prominent Afro-influenced currents in and around Paris — she recognised a sound world 

that matched the evolution she had been hearing in her own work. 

 

Rather than viewing Europe simply as a more supportive market, she began to see it as a place where the musical language she was reaching for was already alive and developing. On that basis, moving to Paris became the natural next step: a way to place herself inside the very currents that were inspiring her, and to let her writing, arranging, and sound grow in that environment. Forever Girl, her fifth studio album and first created entirely from this new base, is the direct outcome of that decision."

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New Album – Forever Girl (November 2026)

Tracye Eileen is proud to present her forthcoming album Forever Girl. This vibrant new body of work is Tracye Eileen’s fifth studio album and her first fully developed project from her relatively new base in Paris, having been a highly respected fixture on the Chicago music scene. Blending Jazz/Soul R&B with French Afro/Caribbean grooves, Forever Girl perfectly reflects the excitement and vibrancy of Tracye’s high-energy, groove driven live show. The album retains all of the deep and soulful vibes of Tracye Eileen’s Chicago roots, while also projecting a new European ambience, based around her experience of residing within the city of light.