Maria Corsaro's love of music and performing began early in her life. She received her first undergraduate degree in theater and after graduation joined an off Broadway theater company. In her early twenties, living in Greenwich Village during this fertile period for theater, music and the arts, Maria found herself gravitating to jazz clubs where she met and hung out with many great jazz musicians and steeped herself in that extraordinary art form. Realizing, as many young artists do, that hanging in jazz clubs and working Off Broadway do not make one a living, Maria  spent many years in a rewarding, but non musical career. But jazz kept beckoning, and in recent years she returned to singing and her love of jazz, and has been performing the music of legendary jazz composers and lyricists in various venues in NYC, Boston, Nashville, Pennsylvania and Connecticut, and has just recorded her first CD, “Love Makes The Changes”. In her live singing and on her CD, she combines her love of jazz, “the music of her heart,” with her experiences of story-telling as a theater and cabaret artist. Her "musical mission" is that her audiences get to experience the musical texture of this great, collaborative art form, as well as the stories these classic songs, some of them familiar, some of them undiscovered gems, tell.