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AZZ SINGER Stacey Kent has toured the world and played in countless theatres and halls, but she says that some places really stick in the mind. And Cadogan Hall is one of them. “It’s a great hall, it’s a beautiful place
to play. It’s got this great acoustic and it’s got a beautiful feel… Cadogan [Hall] is a great memory from the gig itself but also from the venue. So I’m looking forward to being back in that hall.” She’s returning to Chelsea for a special concert on June 14. It’s the tenth anniversary of the release of her album The Boy Next Door this year, so the Cadogan Hall concert will see her performing music from it in celebration. “It will be fun. I haven’t ever done that – a show where I’ve built it around an entire old album for an anniversary – before, so this is going to be a really delightful little project,” says Stacey.
She says that she considers The Boy Next
Door as a real turning point for her in her recording career.
“I had chosen songs from a lot of my heroes, and so the range of songs is interesting because a lot of them are standards but they come from different people with very different sounds,” she explains. “There are certain songs from The Boy Next Door which are constantly requested, even today.”
It was her last album of jazz standards – with a few other favourite songs in there as well – before Stacey started to take her music in a different direction.
“I loved the material I sang [on The Boy Next Door], but I was already starting to feel
American jazz singer Stacey Kent is returning to Cadogan Hall to mark the tenth birthday of her album The Boy Next Door. She tells Lucy Brown about the concert in June, life on the road, and how listening to Desert Island Discs led to an extraordinary collaboration with one of her literary heroes
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