Stacey Kent

Quick Facts

Full Name	Stacey Kent
Occupation	Jazz Musician
Date Of Birth	Mar 27, 1968(1968-03-27)
Age	56
Birthplace	South Orange
Country	United States
Birth City	New Jersey
Horoscope	Pisces

Stacey Kent Biography

Stacey Kent is one of the most popular and richest Jazz Musician who was born on March 27, 1968 in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Stacey Kent (born March 27 1965) is an American jazz vocalist. Kent frequently performs her music with her voice in French and was given the Ordre of Arts and Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture in 2009. Kent is married the saxophonist Jim Tomlinson.

The album of Kent The Boy Next Door achieved Gold album status in France in September. Breakfast on the Morning Tram (2007) reached Platinum Album status in France at the end of November 2007. It also achieved Double Gold status in Germany in February 2008. The album, Raconte-moi… made its debut in French and was awarded Gold standing in France as well as Germany and was the second highest-selling French album of the French language worldwide in 2010.

Dreamer In Concert (2011) was recorded in May, 2011, at La Cigale in Paris. The album includes three songs previously unrecorded by Kent: “Waters of March” by Antonio Carlos Jobim, “Postcard Lovers” by Jim Tomlinson with lyrics by Kazuo Ishiguro, and “O Comboio” by Portuguese poet António Ladeira.

In 2013, Kent released The Changing Lights, a Brazilian-tinged album, covering bossa nova classics such as Jobim’s “How Insensitive” and again collaborating with Tomlinson and Ishiguro. In 2014, she left Warner Bros. and signed with Sony. Sony released Tenderly, an album of standards with Roberto Menescal, one of the founders of bossa nova. She met Menescal in Brazil in 2011 at the 80th birthday celebration of the Christ the Redeemer statue. They discovered they were fans of each others’ work and collaborated on an album of standards inspired by Menescal’s admiration for the duo of Julie London and Barney Kessel.

Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro composed the liner notes for Kent’s 2003 album In Love Again. Ishiguro met Kent after she chose her track of “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” as one of his Desert Island Discs in 2002 and Kent wanted Tomlinson as well as Ishiguro to write the lyrics for her. Ishiguro has commented on his lyrics the following “with an intimate, confiding, first- person song, the meaning must not be self-sufficient on the page. It has to be oblique, sometimes you have to read between the lines” and that realization has given him the “enormous influence” on his writing fiction.

Stacey Kent Net Worth

Stacey Kent is one of the richest Jazz Musician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stacey Kent 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the 90s in the 1990s, she started her professional singing career in the Cafe Boheme situated in London’s Soho. After a couple of years, she started opening for established performers on the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London. The album that she first released, Close Your Eyes, was released in 1997.

Stacey Kent was born in South Orange, New Jersey and went to Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey. Her maternal grandfather was Russian and she grew up in France. After she graduated of Sarah Lawrence College, she moved to England to pursue a degree in music at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London in which she met the saxophonist Jim Tomlinson, whom she got married on the 9th of August 1991.

Tomlinson and Ishiguro co-wrote four songs on the album Breakfast on the Morning Tram. The first of their songs, “The Ice Hotel”, won first prize in the International Songwriting Competition in April 2008. Kent recorded several more Tomlinson/Ishiguro songs on Dreamer In Concert, The Changing Lights, and I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Stacey Kent Dating?

According to our records, Stacey Kent married to Jim Tomlinson. As of December 1, 2023, Stacey Kent’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Stacey Ranked on the list of most popular Jazz Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Stacey Kent celebrates birthday on March 27 of every year.

Is Stacey Kent French?

Early life and education. Stacey Kent was born in South Orange, New Jersey. Her paternal grandfather was Russian and grew up in France.

What nationality is Stacey Kent?

American

What genre is Stacey Kent?

Jazz

How old is Stacey Kent?

57 years (March 27, 1965)

Can Stacey Kent speak French?

“ I grew up speaking French with my grandpa, who taught me to speak French as a little girl and introduced me to the poetry ,” Kent says. “This album is not a new concept to me.