Arianna Neikrug is a New York City-based vocalist, songwriter, arranger, and recording artist. Following her studies at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, Arianna established herself as a mainstay of the jazz community with her first-prize victory in the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition (2015) and her critically acclaimed debut outing on Concord Records, Changes (2018). A natural-born performer, she brings charm and charisma to the stage and delights her audiences with expressiveness and humor.

After spending the better part of a decade immersed in the Great American Songbook, Arianna was ready to step out from behind the standards and find her own artistic voice. Arianna's forthcoming album, Deep Blue (Fall 2026), which is her first entry in the pop/singer-songwriter space, represents the culmination of that years-long effort. Deep Blue is not only a long-anticipated sophomore studio album; it is also a reintroduction to an artist defiantly doing things on her own terms across 13 tracks on which she is the sole singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer.

With Deep Blue, Arianna carves out a fresh and intriguing new idiom in pop, while also revealing the depth and breadth of her influences beyond jazz, as will be immediately apparent to fans of Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, and, more contemporaneously, the likes of Sara Bareilles, Brandi Carlile, and Regina Spektor. The result is a lyrically powerful meditation on self-doubt, the life of an artist, perseverance, and the search for meaning and joy, all packaged musically in warm, vital, infectious, and expertly-constructed pop songs—and all delivered with Arianna's characteristic blend of both technical mastery and genuine soul.