Nancy Erickson Lamont – Through The Passages
American jazz singer Nancy Erickson Lamont has been familiar with the Seattle jazz scene for more than 3 decades. Nancy grew up in Salem, Oregon, where she attended Edmonds Community College.
Together with the singing group of that school she was able to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival and the North Sea Jazz Festival. She started her career at the end of the eighties and sang in the Seattle band After Hours.
Her Christmas album ‘Urban Christmas’ followed in 1993 and she also sang in the backing choir of various R&B and rock bands, as well as with soul singer Bernadette Bascom. But the following year she decided to take care of her family. It wasn’t until 15 years later that she returned to music and in 2012 she won the Seattle Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Competition.
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