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Stacey at Concorde for one night only
Internationally renowned singer Stacey Kent returns to the Concorde Club for one night only later this year.
Stacey's first love was languages, not music. She visited Europe to study French, Italian and German for a Masters Degree in comparative literature. Only a chance meeting with saxophonist Jim Tomlinson awakened her love of music.
Stacey then studied for a year at the Guildhall School of Music and began pursuing her talent professionally with the help and support of her now husband, Jim. Her demo tape attracted interest from Polygram, Candid Records and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttleton. It secured her a recording contract, national airplay, a role in Ian McKellen's film version of Richard III and an endorsement from Britain's most respected jazz broadcaster.
Lyttleton was the first critic to fall for Stacey's unique talent. Since then she has had seven best-selling albums including Breakfast on the Morning Tram and The Boy Next Door which have both achieved gold status along with countless awards such as the 2001 British Jazz Award, the 2002 BBC Jazz Award for Best Vocalist and the Backstage Bistro Award for Best Live Performance in 2004.
She continues to collaborate with her husband Jim, being the featured vocalist on his album The Lyric that won the 2006 Album of the Year.
She was invited by Clint Eastwood to sing at his 70th birthday party, has sung on Michael Parkinson's chat show and Sir David Frost asked her to sing on his Sunday morning show Breakfast with Frost. Her singing has also caused Aerosmith's Steven Tyler to name Stacey as among his favourite singers.
Jay Livingston (three time Oscar-winning songwriter) has written of Stacey that she "has the style of the greats like Billy Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald" also noting that she "sings the words like Nat King Cole - clean, clear and almost conversational with perfect phasing. And that's as good as it gets."
Matt Barrett
10:13am Tuesday 26th August 2008
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