Lucia Alessi began her musical studies at age 6, focusing on piano and singing for nearly ten years, before continuing her jazz studies at the Popular School of Music in Testaccio, Rome. In 1999, she started performing at various venues in Rome. Moving to Barcelona in 2003, she explored flamenco and bossa nova with the group “Vida Bossa,” performing between Spain and Italy.

Back in Italy, she entered also theatrical and circus experiences, with the director Veronica Cruciani and Big Up Circus in Rome, while starting also collaborating as vocalist in the San Lorenzo Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble under maestro Marco Omicini.

In 2019 she starts her collaboration with the Balkan Lab Orchestra of Rome, while she deepens her studies in oriental music by traveling several times to the Balkans (North Macedonia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece) to study with various professionals (Evgenios Vulgaris, Veka Aler, Uygar Turan, Evgenia Toli, Beppe Frana, Gergana Taskova, Kočani Orchestra, Katerina Douka, Lamia Yared…).

In 2021, she composes and sings the soundtrack for the short film “TRIA,” directed by Giulia Alice Grandinetti, presented at Venice Film Festival 2022, and winning the Best Soundtrack award at 3 International Festivals, and collaborated with more artists (Carla Mulas Gonzales, Ali Hout, Giordano Antonelli)

In 2024, she moved to France to deepen her artistic research and dedicate herself to the contamination of languages and the creation of multimedia shows, blending arts into a unique immersive experience.

Actually she is leader of “Esti Jazz Ensamble“, a project mixing balkan repertoire with jazz language, with Apostolos Sideris, Srdjan Ivanovic, Adrian Cao-Godard and Robby Marshall, and of “Lucia Alessi Latin Jazz trio“, with Gianluca Figliola and Andrea Sampalmieri, exploring variations of jazz in the latin world.