National recording artist, Ayanna Hobson, has recently returned to San Diego and is currently singing jazz, R&B, blues, and Soul Music in local clubs with some of San Diego's finest musicians.

Musical Theater is another area that you'll find her portraying some of the Jazz Vocalist greats such as Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald in theater productions.  She has toured nationally & internationally and is a graduate of the Don Campbell, "Power of Sound" training in San Francisco and she studied with and performed with such internationally known musicians/teachers as Eddie Harris, Daniel Jackson, the flautist, James Newton and Phil Moore in LA.

Her performance repertoire consists of her original compositions, urban, progressive & standard jazz/blues, soul and gospel.  Her musical diet consisted of many of the greats such as, B.B. King, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye and Sarah Vaughn to name a few.  Her powerful vocal style, with an Operatic 4.5 Octave range, has often been compared to that of Cleo Laine and Sarah Vaughn, her jazzy vocal stylings to that of Abbey Lincoln and Betty Carter.  Her powerful Blues deliveries to that of KoKo Taylor!