Singer Selma Savolainen (FI) is known for Signe quartet and the band Selma Juudit Alessandra. She’s studied at the Sibelius Academy where her teachers included among others Jenny Robson and Aija Puurtinen.
Selma Savolainen received the Pori Jazz Rising Talent award in 2022. Her debut album Horror Vacui (2023) got rave reviews and was distributed internationally. At Pori Jazz her band will feature clarinetist Max Zenger, trumpeter Tomi Nikku, pianist Toomas Keski-Säntti and drummer Okko Saastamoinen.