Veronica Nunn
Veronica Elaine Nunn (born October 7, 1957) is an America jazz singer who has been the featured vocalist with Michael Franks since 1992.
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Birth name | Veronica Elaine Nunn |
Born | Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. | October 7, 1957
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Labels | Dead Horse |
Associated acts | Michael Franks |
Website | veronicanunn |
In the late 1970s she moved to New York City to pursue a degree in theology at Lehmans College in the Bronx. Singing in the music clubs at night to support her college tuition, she met Big Nick Nicholas, who was a teacher of tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. She became a first-call jazz singer in Harlem and Greenwich Village. In 1997 she married jazz pianist Travis Shook and they started Dead Horse Records in Woodstock, New York.
Selected discography
As leader
- American Lullaby (2002)
- Standard Delivery (2007)
- The Art of Michael Franks (2010)
With Michael Franks
- Watching the Snow
- Rendezvous in Rio
With Travis Shook
- Plays Kurt Weill
- Awake
External links
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