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Critic Consensus
Based on 5 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Stacey Kent is rated as a remarkable live performer, with impressive shows that are worth watching. Stacey Kent concert reviews describe live shows and performances as emotional.
South Orange, United States (3/27/1968) (3/27/1968) (3/27/1968)
Bio
Stacey Kent (born March 27, 1968 in South Orange, New Jersey) is a Grammy-nominated American jazz vocalist, who debuted in 1997 with Close Your Eyes. Kent attended Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey.
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Record Collector Magazine (UK)
October 4, 2017
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A singer of love songs, the jazz star focuses on emotion and expressing the human condition, reflected in an emotionally-charged performance.
The jazz singer Stacey Kent is an artist who isn’t merely content to celebrate her musical influences from a distance: She goes directly to the source. The list of musicians with whom she works includes the founders of bossa nova, which forms an essential part of her international repertoire. That involves vi
The prosperous wistful ennui that some of her recorded songs exude propelled by her impeccable enunciation and glistening tone is cosmopolitan with a slightly laminated departure-lounge sameness.
Her default emotion is blissful wonder at the sheer joy of living, and she intersperses each song with rapturous eulogies to her material, her home in Colorado, her recent holiday in Brazil, her husband and accompanist Jim Tomlinson… anything that comes to mind, really.
And yet there is more to Kent’s singing