A jazz singer with a smooth, lithe quality to her voice, Georgia Mancio started her career singing standards, but ventured into various songwriting partnerships beginning in the early 2000s. Her debut album, 2003's Peaceful Place, included her first original song (a collaboration with composer Tim Lapthorn) alongside a mix of standards and original tunes. She continued the practice on subsequent albums, including the multi-lingual Trapeze (2008) and live release Live at ReVoice! (2015). Her first set of all original songs arrived in 2017 in the form of her fifth studio album, Songbook. She later re-teamed with the album's co-writer, Alan Broadbent, for 2021's Quiet Is the Star.

Born in London to Italian immigrants who met in London, Georgia Mancio grew up in Croydon, where she took classical flute lessons. She preferred to sing but was advised by her paternal grandparents -- both classical pianists -- to let her voice mature before seeking out training. Drawn to the vocal jazz of artists including Frank Sinatra, Betty Carter, and Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, she finally started singing at 19 and waitressed part-time for several years at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.

Mancio wrote her first lyrics for the song "Peaceful Place" in 2001. Pianist Tim Lapthorn composed the music. It became the title track of her first album, a collection of duo and trio performances co-produced by Mancio and double bassist Andrew Cleyndert. Peaceful Place was released in 2003 on Roomspin Records, which also issued the follow-up, 2008's Trapeze. Recorded after spending two years touring with her band, it featured the lineup of John Pearce (piano), Dave Green (double bass), and Dave Ohm (drums), with Anselmo Netto (percussion, mandolin) and Gareth Lockrane (flute). A mercurial release, it offered standards alongside sambas, Chilean folk, and Italian pop songs, and languages including English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.

She re-teamed with Lapthorn to write her 2010 album Silhouette, which also featured co-writes with Kate Williams, who played piano on the record. Among the record's covers were songs by Tom Waits and Antônio Carlos Jobim as well as Jules Styne and Comden Green. Like Trapeze, it was co-produced by Mancio, Ohm, and Derek Nash. 2013's Come Rain or Come Shine was a collaboration with guitarist/co-producer Nigel Price that featured bassist Julie Walkington.

In 2015, the singer released her first live album, Live at ReVoice! It included performances from a dozen musicians, including Cleyndert, who co-produced the recording. The set list included versions of lesser-known songs by Carole King and David Bowie among her usual mix of covers and originals. Her next album, 2017's Songbook, was co-written with Grammy-winning pianist/arranger Alan Broadbent and was her first to feature all original material. The rhythm section of Ohm and bassist Oli Hayhurst accompanied her on the album.

Mancio took home the award for Best Album at the 2020 Parliamentary Jazz Awards for 2019's Finding Home (Kwjazz), an honor she shared with (jazz trio and string quartet) Kate Williams' Four Plus Three. It, too, featured a combination of covers of original songs. Another collaboration with Alan Broadbent, Quiet Is the Star, followed in 2021 on Roomspin Records. ~ Marcy Donelson, Rovi