Donatella Montinaro is an Italian singer and songwriter. She was born and raised in Bari (Apulia region). She starts singing at an early age, inspired by pop and R&B singers of the time. In 2010 she begins to attend the pre-academic course of the Conservatory N. Piccinni of Bari, where she approaches for the first time and becomes passionate about jazz music. In 2015 she starts attending the private school in her hometown 'Il Pentagramma', studying with the best musicians in the area; at the same time she enrolls in the bachelor program of the Conservatory N. Piccinni in Bari to follow the jazz singing course. After obtaining the bachelor diploma, she enrolls in the prestigious “Siena Jazz” school to attend the “Master” and have, therefore, the opportunity to study with the biggest names in the current jazz scene and beyond (to name a few: Greg Hutchinson, Joe Sanders, Yonathan Avishai, Logan Richardson, Diana Torto, Dena DeRose, David Linx etc...). In February 2022 she wins the first prize in the singers category of the prestigious Italian Competition “Chicco Bettinardi”. She appears, also, in the “Top Jazz 2023”, a historic ranking stipulated by the magazine “Musica Jazz”, among the “New Talents – Italy”. Her music, therefore, is necessarily a confluence of numerous stylistic influences, making jazz the basic principle, not so much as a specific sound and genre, but more as a research for a mutant music, played and created “together”.