Louise Parker is a singer from Chelmsford, England, born in 1993. Two artists share this name, including a British vocalist associated with jazz, blues, gospel and lounge, and a modern country singer from the UK.

The British Louise Parker grows up in a musical household shaped by her Jamaican-born mother’s taste for folk, calypso and opera, and her father’s interest in trad, swing and bebop jazz. She is named after Louis Armstrong and develops a style centred on soulful jazz, with a warm tone, rhythmic phrasing and scat singing.

She becomes known as a live performer on the UK festival circuit and appears regularly on Radio 2’s Best of Jazz. Her repertoire includes swing, blues and gospel classics, and she is described as interpreting songs with the spirit and warmth associated with classic jazz vocalists. Her influences include Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.

Parker performs at venues and festivals across the UK, including Glastonbury Festival, Pizza Express, the Isle of Wight International Jazz Festival and Plymouth Orange Music Festival. She performs with her own Louise Parker Trio and also appears with other jazz musicians, including saxophonist Alan Barnes, who is a BBC Jazz Award winner.