Stacey Kent Plays Poland
One of the most respected jazz vocalists Stacey Kent returns to Poland with three concerts. The artist will perform in autumn in Wroclaw, Krakow and Warsaw.
Stacey Kent (born March 27, 1966 in South Orange, New Jersey) is a Grammy nominated Anglo-American jazz singer.
Kent attended Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and moved to England after her graduation. While studying at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she met the tenor saxophonist Jim Tomlinson, whom she married on August 9, 1991.
In the early 1990s, Kent began her professional career singing regularly in a popular nightspot, Café Boheme in London's Soho. After two or three years, Kent began opening for established jazz acts across the road at the Ronnie Scott's nightclub in London.
Her first CD, Close Your Eyes, was released in 1997. She has released seven CDs as of 2010, and has been also featured on Tomlinson's albums, most recently The Lyric (2005), which won "Album of the Year" at the 2006 BBC Jazz Awards.
Kent's music has been championed by critic and jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton, and she won the 2001 British Jazz Award and the 2002 BBC Jazz Award for Best Vocalist. She has also presented jazz programmes on BBC Radio 2 and 3.
Kent's album, The Boy Next Door achieved Gold album status in France in September, 2006. Breakfast On The Morning Tram (2007) achieved Platinum album status in France in November, 2007 and Gold album status in Germany in February, 2008 and was nominated for Best Vocal Jazz Album at the 2009 Grammy Awards.
On 31 March 2009 Kent received the National Order of Arts and Letters (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) - a government decoration - in recognition of her contribution to the arts, from French Culture Minister Christine Albanel.
The new album of Stacey Kent will be released this year. She will perform the new songs during her concerts in Poland. (05/23/2011)
Here is a schedule of the concerts:
October 23 - Studio of Polish Radio in Wroclaw, October 24 – Bath Theatre in Cracow, and 25 October - Congress Hall in Warsaw.
