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Stacey Kent Nom Stacey Kent Naissance le 27 mars 1968 Pays d’origine South Orange, New Jersey (États-Unis) Genre musical Jazz Années d'activité 1997 - aujourd'hui Labels Blue Note Site officiel staceykent.com Stacey Kent est une chanteuse américaine de jazz, née le 27 mars 1968 à South Orange, dans le New Jersey.
Biographie
Stacey Kent, après avoir obtenu son diplôme en littérature comparée au Sarah Lawrence College de New York, est partie en Grande-Bretagne, où elle a suivi les cours du Guildhall School of Music and Drama, et rencontré le sax ténor Jim Tomlinson, qu'elle a épousé en 1991.
Son premier album, Close Your Eyes, sort en 1997. Cinq autres suivront, ainsi que des participations aux albums de Tomlinson, dont dernièrement The Lyric (2005), qui a remporté le prix de l'album de l'année aux BBC Jazz Awards 2006. Elle-même a remporté le prix de meilleure vocaliste aux British Jazz Award (2001) et BBC Jazz Award (2002).
Son album The Boy Next Door a été certifié disque d'or en France en septembre 2006.
Dans l'adaptation de Richard Loncraine de Richard III (1995), elle chante une version jazz d'un poème de Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate shepherd to his love.
Son album, Breakfast On The Morning Tram, sorti le 7 septembre 2007 en France, devient disque d'or trois mois plus tard, le 13 décembre.
Sort en 2010, l'album Raconte-moi, succession de chansons en français. Elle y reprend notamment, Jardin d'hiver et Vacances au bord de la mer.
Le 31 mars 2009 Stacey Kent se voit décorée de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres par le ministre français de la culture Christine Albanel.
Discographie
1997 : Close Your Eyes- More Than You Know
- Dream Dancing
- Close Your Eyes
- There's A Lull In My Life
- Its Delovely
- There's No You
- I'm Old Fashioned
- You Go To My Head
- Little White Lies
- Sleep Warm
- Day In - Day Out
1998 : The Tender Trap- The Tender Trap
- Didn't Know About You
- Comes Love
- In The Still Of The Night
- Fools Rush In
- East Of The Sun
- Zing! Went the Strings Of My Heart
- They Say Its Wonderful
- Don't Be That Way
- They All Laughed
- In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
- Its A Wonderful World
1999 : Only Trust Your Heart- Makin' Brownies
- Only The Lonely
- I'm Just A Lucky So And So
- Only Trust Your Heart
- Just A Child
- Vienna Blues
- Glad To Be Unhappy
- El Cajon
- Blue Corners
- What Will I Tell My Heart
- If You Never Come To Me
2000 : Let Yourself Go: Celebrating Fred Astaire- Let Yourself Go
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- I Won't Dance
- Isn't This A Lovely Day?
- They All Laughed
- He Loves and She Loves
- Shall We Dance
- One For My Baby
- S'Wonderful
- A Fine Romance
- I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
- I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket
- By Myself
2001 : Dreamsville- I've Got A Crush On You
- When Your Lover Has Gone
- Isn't It A Pity ?
- You Are There
- Under A Blanket Of Blue
- Dreamsville
- Polka Dots & Moonbeams
- Hushabye Mountain
- Little Girl Blue
- You're Looking At Me
- Violets For Your Furs
- Thanks For The Memory
2001 : Brazilian Sketches- Dreamer
- Caminhos Cruzados
- Ligia
- So Nice
- So Danco Samba
- Once I Loved
- I Concentrate On You
- Portrait In Black & White
- She's A Carioca
- The Gentle Rain
- No More Blues
2001 : Shall We Dance?- Shall We Dance?
- Under A Blanket Of Blue
- Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear To Tread)
- Comes Love
- In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
- Let Yourself Go
- I've Got A Crush On You
- Isn'It A Pity?
- More Than You Know
- They All Laughed
- He Loves and She Loves
- They Say It's Wonderful
- The Tender Trap
- There's A Lull in My Life
- I Won't Dance
2002 : In Love Again: The Music of Richard Rodgers- Shall We Dance
- Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
- My Heart Stood Still
- It Never Entered My Mind
- I Wish I were In Love Again
- Thou Swell
- It Might As Well Be Spring
- Nobody's Heart (Belongs To Me)
- I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair
- This Can't Be Love
- Easy To Remember
- Manhattan
- Bali Ha'i
2003 : The Boy Next Door- The Best Is Yet To Come
- The Boy Next Door
- The Trolley Song
- Say It Isn't So
- Too Darn Hot
- Makin' Whooppee
- What The World Needs Now Is Love
- You've Got A Friend
- I Got It Bad
- Ooh-Shoobee-Doo-Bee
- People Will Say We're In Love
- 'Tis Autumn
- All I Do (Is Dream Of You)
- Get Along Without You Very Well
- You're The Top
- Bookends
2003 : The Christmas Song- Hushabye Mountain
- The Christmas Song
- Violets For Your Furs
2004 : SK Collection- Comes Love
- Fools Rush In
- They All Laughed
- All Too Soon
- I’m Just A Lucky So And So
- East Of The Sun
- A Fine Romance
- He Loves And She Loves
- Isn’t This A Lovely Day
- It’s Delovely
- You Go To My Head
- Day In, Day Out
2006 : The Lyric- Manha de carnival
- Corcovado
- I’ve Grown Accustomed to his Face
- If I Were a Bell
- I Got Lost in his Arms
- What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
- Cockeyed Optimist
- My Heart Belongs To Daddy
- The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
- Outra vez
- Jardin d’hiver
- Something Happens To Me
- Stardust
2007 : SK Collection II- Let Yourself Go
- They Can't Take That Away from Me
- I Won't Dance
- Isn't This a Lovely Day?
- They All Laughed
- He Loves and She Loves
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- Shall We Dance?
- 'S Wonderful
- Fine Romance
- I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
- I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
- By Myself
2007 : Breakfast on the Morning Tram- The Ice Hotel
- Landslide
- Ces petits riens
- I Wish I Could Go Travelling Again
- So Many Stars
- Samba Saravah
- Breakfast on the Morning Tram
- Never Let Me Go
- So Romantic
- Hard Hearted Hannah
- La saison des pluies
- What a Wonderful World
2010 : Raconte-moi...- Les eaux de mars
- Jardin d'hiver
- Raconte-moi
- L'étang
- La Vénus du mélo
- Au coin du monde
- C'est le printemps
- Sait-on jamais
- Les vacances au bord de la mer
- Mi amor
- Le mal de vivre
- Désuets
2011 : Hushabye Mountain- Too Darn Hot
- All I Do Is Dream of You
- Say It Isn't So
- Hushabye Mountain
- Thou Swell
- It Might As Well Be Spring
- My Heart Stood Still
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams
- Under a Blanket of Blue
- Close Your Eyes
Liens externes
- discours de Christine Albanel lors de la cérémonie de remise de la décoration de chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
- Site officiel (version française)
- Site officiel (version anglaise)
Catégories :- Chanteuse américaine
- Chanteuse de jazz
- Naissance au New Jersey
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
- Naissance en 1968
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