New York native Stacey Kent never anticipated a career in jazz music: she was a Sarah Lawrence graduate with a degree in comparative literature. But her childhood days spent listening to the traditional beauty of Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole undoubtedly influenced her. While on holiday in Europe after graduating from college, she took up singing without much formal training and never looked back.
Kent became acquainted with several musicians at Oxford in 1991, and through them she found herself participating in a jazz course at the famed Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There she also met her future husband, tenor saxophonist Jim Tomlinson, and landed a spot in the class. Her next spot was singing with the Vile Bodies Swing Orchestra at the Ritz Hotel in London, quickly landing a role in Ian McKellen's Richard III film, playing a big-band singer. The mid-'90s were more focused on recording and in 1996, Kent inked a deal with Candid Records. A year later, the critically acclaimed Close Your Eyes was issued; Tender Trap followed in 1999. Her third LP, Let Yourself Go: Celebrating Fred Astaire, which showcased popular standards, appeared in spring 2000. The ballad-oriented Dreamsville appeared the next spring. She also recorded an album with Tomlinson titled Lyric, and appeared on Blue Note for several albums during the 2000s. In 2010 Kent released the all-French album Raconte-Moi, which went on to achieve gold status in both France and Germany. The live album, Dreamer in Concert -- recorded at the La Cigale in Paris -- appeared a year later in 2011. Two years later, Kent return with The Changing Lights; inspired by her love of Brazillian music, the album saw her working with Portuguese poet Antonio Ladeira and French lyricist Bernie Beaupère. ~bio by MacKenzie Wilson
Album:
Collection
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 58:46
Size: 134.5 MB
Styles: Standards, Jazz vocals
Year: 2004
Art: Front
[4:00] 1. Comes Love
[4:57] 2. They Can't Take That Away From Me
[4:25] 3. They All Laughed
[4:06] 4. All Too Soon
[5:18] 5. I'm Just A Lucky So And So
[6:33] 6. East Of The Sun
[5:04] 7. In The Still Of The Night
[4:20] 8. He Loves And She Loves
[3:55] 9. Isn't This A Lovely Day
[3:21] 10. It's De-Lovely
[6:56] 11. You Go To My Head
[5:44] 12. Day In - Day Out
Collection
Album:
Collection II
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 54:54
Size: 125.7 MB
Styles: Standards, Jazz vocals
Year: 2007
Art: Front
[4:21] 1. The Gentle Rain
[2:58] 2. Shall We Dance
[5:31] 3. Little Girl Blue
[2:33] 4. I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
[5:31] 5. Dreamsville
[6:30] 6. I Concentrate on You
[2:23] 7. You Are There
[3:43] 8. Let Yourself Go
[4:39] 9. I've Got a Crush on You
[4:08] 10. Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
[5:50] 11. One For My Baby (and One More For the Road)
[4:10] 12. Little White Lies
[2:32] 13. Hushabye Mountain
Collection II
Album:
Collection III
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 51:31
Size: 117.9 MB
Styles: Standards, Jazz vocals
Year: 2009
Art: Front
[4:17] 1. You've Got a Friend
[4:09] 2. What the World Needs Now Is Love
[3:44] 3. Nobody's Heart
[4:02] 4. The Trolley Song
[4:35] 5. It Never Entered My Mind
[4:52] 6. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
[3:03] 7. This Can't Be Love
[3:44] 8. People Will Say We're In Love
[3:38] 9. Shall We Dance
[4:59] 10. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
[4:01] 11. I Wish I Were in Love Again
[3:24] 12. The Best Is Yet to Come
[2:58] 13. Bali Ha'i
Collection III