“This is my niche, my specialty,” says Stigers. “I have a great love and an eclectic knowledge of a wide array of songwriters and musical genres, and I know how to bring them all together into one cohesive sound.  I want to follow in the footsteps of my heroes. This is what Ella and Billie Holiday did. This is what Sinatra and Nat Cole did. This is even what Miles and Coltrane and nearly all of the great jazz artists have done. They’ve taken the popular songs of their generation and created something new from them. I know a lot about Rock music and Alt Country and Urban Blues and Folk music and Punk Rock. So I use that knowledge. And that’s what I’m steadily becoming known for.”

Throughout his career, Stigers has been celebrated for a surprisingly wide variety of impressive accomplishments - from his early pop chart success with several self-penned, top-ten singles and hit albums and an appearance on the soundtrack for “The Bodyguard” (one of the biggest selling albums of all time), to Downbeat Magazine naming him as one of the jazz genre’s “Rising Male Stars” and the London Times selecting his last jazz recording, You Inspire Me, as the number one album of 2003. He’s toured the world in concert with such renowned pop artists as Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, and Prince, while also sharing the bill with such jazz greats as Nancy Wilson, Randy Brecker, and Toots Thielmans. Stigers has performed on “The Tonight Show” and “The Late Show with David Letterman,” in the United States and ‘Parkinson’ in the United Kingdom and has been called “one of the best male jazz singers of his generation” by JazzTimes. His refusal to stand still, and his consistent desire to grow and evolve musically, has earned him admiration and recognition - and kept critics guessing.

What distinguishes Stigers from many jazz singers today is his ability to craft and create beautiful music of his own.“What I’m after is a complex and ever-changing thing, which makes it difficult to define who I am. I sing beautiful love songs, but I’m not really a crooner. I write, but I’m not just a singer-songwriter. I’m certainly a jazz singer but so much more, too. I grew up on Stevie Wonder and Sarah Vaughn, Johnny Cash and Led Zeppelin, Joni Mitchell and Coleman Hawkins, B.B. King and Elton John, Joe Williams and The Clash, Elvis Costello and Sonny Rollins, Tom Waits and Steely Dan, Louis Armstrong and Ray Charles, and on and on. That’s who I am and there’s nobody else like me. That’s how I want my music to sound. Like me.”