It 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. ĭreamer In Concert (2011) was recorded in May, 2011 at La Cigale in Paris. was recorded in French and achieved Gold status in both France and Germany and became the second best selling French-language album worldwide in 2010. Breakfast on the Morning Tram (2007) achieved Platinum album status in France in November 2007 and Double Gold status in Germany in February 2008. Kent's album The Boy Next Door achieved Gold album status in France in September 2006. Popular success Stacey Kent onstage in 2016 Tomlinson and Ishiguro subsequently wrote songs for her albums Dreamer, The Changing Lights and I Know I Dream, and continue to write for her. Kent recorded several more Tomlinson/Ishiguro songs on Dreamer In Concert, The Changing Lights, and I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions. The first of their songs, "The Ice Hotel", won first prize in the International Songwriting Competition in April 2008. Tomlinson and Ishiguro co-wrote four songs on the album Breakfast on the Morning Tram. It has to be oblique, sometimes you have to read between the lines" and that this realization has had an "enormous influence" on his fiction writing. Ishiguro has said of his lyric writing that "with an intimate, confiding, first-person song, the meaning must not be self-sufficient on the page. In 2006, Tomlinson and Ishiguro began to write songs for her. Ishiguro met Kent after he chose her recording of " They Can't Take That Away from Me" as one of his Desert Island Discs in 2002. Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro wrote the liner notes to Kent's 2003 album, In Love Again. Her first album, Close Your Eyes, was released in 1997. In 1995, she appeared in Richard Loncraine's film Richard III (starring Ian McKellen), singing "Come Live with Me and Be My Love" (composed by Trevor Jones) at the Grand Ball celebrating the Yorkist triumph in the Wars of the Roses. After two or three years, she began opening for established acts at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London. Kent began her professional career in the 1990s, singing at Café Bohème in London's Soho. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, she traveled to England to study music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she met saxophonist Jim Tomlinson, whom she married on August 9, 1991. Her paternal grandfather was Russian and grew up in France. Kent was born in South Orange, New Jersey. She is married to saxophonist, composer Jim Tomlinson, who produces Kent's albums and writes songs for her with his lyricist partner, novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. Kent was nominated for a Grammy Award and was awarded the Chevalier de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture in 2009. Stacey Kent (born March 27, 1965) is an American jazz singer from South Orange, New Jersey.
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