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Claressa Monteiro is an award winning jazz singer/songwriter and record producer from Singapore with releases on Universal/EmArcy and EMI Music. She is also currently a radio DJ with Singapore's Kiss92 a station of SPH Unionworks Network.

Claressa Monteiro was the first South East Asian jazz artiste to be signed to a worldwide record deal by Universal Music in 2001. Her first CD 'Now & Then' was released by Universal/EmArcy in 2002 and was distributed by UMG.

Claressa Monteiro moved to EMI Music in 2003 and released 'Words Can't Describe' (2003) and Tourmaline Dreams' (2006).

She is a recipient of Singapore's COMPASS Artistic Excellence Award (2009) and was conferred with a Fellowship in jazz vocal performance by the London College of Music (2012)