Alma Micic

Alma Micic is a Belgrade-born jazz vocalist based in New York since 2000, praised for a soulful, rhythmically savvy approach to standards. She began performing professionally in Belgrade as a teenager and became a frequent guest with the Radio Belgrade Big Band before a scholarship brought her to Berklee College of Music in 1995; she graduated in 1999 with a degree in jazz performance. Her recordings as a leader include Introducing Alma (2004), The Hours (2008), Tonight (2013), the Serbian-language Ne Zaboravi Me (2016), You're My Thrill (2024) and Lilac Wine (2025), a tribute to Helen Merrill for Venus Records. She has received the Cleo Laine Award for Outstanding Musicianship and a BRIO Award, and she sang on Eric Alexander's album Timing Is Everything. She performs often with her husband, guitarist Rale Micic.