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Described by the Jazziz website as "one of the most successful and prolific jazz vocalists of her time", Stacey Kent—born on March 27, 1965, in South Orange, New Jersey—is a multi-lingual singer who achieved international acclaim for her unique voice, logging several hit albums and appearances around the world. Born in New Jersey, she studied at the Newark Academy, Sarah Lawrence College and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in England. There, she met and married tenor saxophonist Jim Tomlinson and they have collaborated musically ever since. She garnered attention with performances at Café Boheme and Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London and made her recording debut in 1997 with the album Close Your Eyes. Her 1999 release, Love Is the Tender Trap, went to Number 40 on Billboard's Jazz Albums Chart followed by Let Yourself Go (2000), which reached Number 9. Other hit albums include The Boy Next Door (2003), Breakfast on the Morning Tram (2007), the French-language Raconte-Moi (2010), The Changing Lights (2013), and Tenderly (2016), which featured songs from the Great American Songbook. On her 2017 album I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions, Stacey Kent performed with a 60-piece orchestra. In 2021, Stacy Kent issued Songs from Other Places, which was a collection of songs recorded with pianist Art Hirahara during lockdown. Follow-up album Summer Me, Winter Me was released on Naïve Records in 2023.
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