Typhanie Monique is a respected bandleader, versatile vocalist, songwriter, and a highly in-demand educator, having performed and taught at some of Chicago’s most recognized clubs, festivals, performing arts centers, and academic institutions. 

A bold and engaging performer who exudes an aura of warmth, soul and charisma, Typhanie’s daring rhythmic ideas and unique improvisatory delivery place her in an elite class of vocalists. She confidently defies categorization.

Typhanie’s diverse range of influences made her a natural on Chicago’s acid-jazz scene, and she became heavily involved with groups on the leading edge of that funk-fueled movement, including Sumo, Jive Council and Peking Turtle. Her interest in combining spontaneous hip-hop grooves with advanced jazz improvisation continues today in her side project The Booty Movement Coalition, a collective of some of Chicago finest and most creative musicians.

In the early 2000's, Monique teamed up with Chicago-based guitarist Neal Alger, and the two established themselves as a regular duo in performances around the city and across the country. The duo has three critically acclaimed CD's under their wings: Intrinsic (Blujazz 2004), In This Room (Tyme 2007), and Yuletide Groove (Tyme 2009). 

Typhanie’s first “solo jazz” project, Call It Magic (Dot Time Records) was released on February, 2017.  Produced by Grammy award winning producer Jeff Levenson (Kenny Werner, Joe Lovano, The Brecker Brothers).

She has shared the stage and recorded with many jazz luminaries, including Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, The Manhattan Transfer, Mavis Staples, Joel Frahm, Ken Peplowski, Victor Goines, Tony Monaco, Tom Kennedy, Dana Hall, and Ernie Adams.  Her working quartet consists of Ben Lewis, Joshua Ramos, Dana Hall and Greg Artry. 

Typhanie has appeared at numerous distinguished jazz venues, including Chicago’s Jazz Showcase and City Winery, Smalls Jazz Club and The Kitano in New York, The Jazz Kitchen in Indianapolis, The Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis and The Dakota in Minneapolis, and major outdoor festivals like Taste of Chicago, Isthmus Jazz Festival, SummerFest and the Chicago Jazz Festival.  Internationally, she has performed in Columbia, Ukraine and Russia.   

Monique's teaching resume is as diverse as her performance experience and she maintains strong connections with some of Chicago’s premier institutions. 

August 2024, Typhanie accepted a position at Arizona State University to join the Popular Music program as Clinical Associate Professor of Popular Music, Voice. 

August 2020, Typhanie was appointed Coordinator of Vocal Studies, and Assistant Professor of Voice, tenure track position at Columbia College Chicago. Typhanie joined Columbia College Chicago in 2012 as an adjunct faculty member directing the Pop/Rock Performance ensemble.  She instructed vocal technique, theory and senior seminar courses, directed ensembles including the development of the multi-genre modular ensembles, Styles Survey Ensemble and the Performance Survey Ensemble and taught private instruction in musical theater, pop, rock, jazz and soul genres. 

At DePaul University, Ms. Monique implemented the vocal component of the Jazz Studies program directing the vocal jazz ensemble, jazz combo’s and teaching private jazz voice and improvisation lessons from 2016 to 2020. 

During the fall quarter of 2015, Typhanie was invited to teach pop and jazz to Northwestern University's musical theatre students, in both applied voice and a studio class setting.  

For more than a decade, Typhanie was an instructor, performer, presenter and community member of the  Old Town School of Folk Music where she developed a jazz vocal course tract and graced the OTSFM stage performing many concerts including her Call It Magic, CD release extravaganza.  She continues to present workshops and will forever hold OTSFM in her heart.

In 2016, Typhanie coached singers in a stage production of Another Word for Beauty at the Goodman Theatre. She regularly appears as a guest clinician and performer at high schools and universities in Chicago and around the U.S. Midwest, leading engaging workshops and master classes in jazz singing and contemporary vocal technique. 

Typhanie served on the adjudication panel of the 2015 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Jazz Competition—continues to be felt worldwide. She worked as a vocal coach for the Voice of McDonald’s International Voice Competition in 2010, 2012, 2014, helping the famous fast-food chain’s employee contestants prepare their performances. Mexico-based pop sensation Guillermo Otero hired Typhanie to spend 10 days coaching him and singing background vocals on his hit album Yo Soy Yo (Capitol Latin/Universal Music Latin Entertainment). 

Typhanie considers herself a lifelong student of the art of singing and has studied with jazz masters Mark Murphy, Sheila Jordan and Bobby McFerrin, and more recently with Jeanie LoVetri, who stands at the forefront of contemporary commercial music vocal pedagogy.  Monique holds a Master of Music degree in Applied Vocal Pedagogy from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Business from Elmhurst College.