Stacey Kent

On tour

Pictures

couch1 png500s

Listen to, buy or share

Buy

Buy on Amazon Amazon Expand purchase options
  • Digital download
  • Amazon Amazon
  • 7digital 7digital
  • iTunes iTunes
  • Physical media
  • Amazon Amazon Search
  • eBay eBay Search
  • 3,115,970
    scrobbles
  • 275,953
    listeners

Tags

Everyone’s tags

More tags

Biography

England (1997 – present)

Stacey Kent (born March 27, 1968 in South Orange, New Jersey) is a Grammy-nominated USA vocalist, who debuted with “Close Your Eyes” (1997) and has “Hushabye Mountain” (2011), as her latest album.

Kent attended Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey. She graduated with a Degree in Comparative Literature 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 tenor saxophonist, Jim Tomlinson, whom she married on 9 Aug 1991.

Discography: “Close Your Eyes” (1997), “The Tender Trap” (1998), “Let Yourself Go: Celebrating Fred Astaire” (2000), “Dreamsville” (2001), “Brazilian Sketches” (2001), “In Love Again: The Music of Richard Rodgers” (2002), “The Boy Next Door” (2003), “Collection” (2001), “Collection II” (2003), “Collection III” (2006), “Breakfast On The Morning Tram” (2007), “Breakfast On The Morning Tram” (2008, limited edition boxset CD/DVD), “Raconte-Moi…” (2010) and “Hushabye Mountain” (2011).

Kent has also featured in Tomlinson’s 2006 album, The Lyric, which won “Album of the Year” at the 2006 BBC Jazz Awards.

Awards: British Jazz Award (2001) and BBC Jazz Award for Best Vocalist (2002).

Kent’s album, Breakfast on the Morning Tram, was a nominee for Best Jazz Vocal Album at the 51st Grammy Awards (2009).

Trivia: Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro wrote the liner notes to Kent’s 2003 album, The Boy Next Door, and also co-wrote four of the songs on the 2007 album, Breakfast on the Morning Tram.
Read more… Edit bio

Top Albums

Events

Add event

Listening Trend

275,953listeners all time
3,115,970scrobbles all time
Recent listeners trend:

Start scrobbling and track your listening history

Last.fm users scrobble the music they play in iTunes, Spotify, Rdio and over 200 other music players.

Create a Last.fm profile

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up.

Listening Now

Top Listeners