Hello!

I’ve lived in Kansas City all my life, however I’m only a few years acquainted with the music and jazz community here. As an accounting graduate of KU, I decided to pursue singing nearly 8 years into my business career; though singing has been there all along. Singing came before talking. As a baby, I sang melodies from my crib with babbled words. I spent car rides to school singing three-part harmonies with my mom and sister, summers in Michigan with my musical cousins where Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Bobby Darin sang cocktail standards from my Grandmother’s record player. Later, weekly visits to Ms. Anne’s house where I learned the Gershwin songbook alongside her piano. Despite cherished time in high school choir, singing in family weddings and sorority events and folk duo nights in college, music largely remained a quiet part of my life.

Toward the end of my twenties, fear of regret became greater than my fear of what people might think; and in an effort to send a spark out into the universe, I answered an online ad from a jazz group seeking a singer. I don't know that I could ever replicate the serendipitous series of events that led me here, but performing jazz has been the greatest gift and source of joy in my life. I am grateful to every musician I’ve worked with during this journey. So many have been instrumental in helping me develop my repertoire and confidence. They’ve gently instructed, challenged me with new material, and trusted me to do my best. Family, friends and a handful of early venues supported and hired me from the start, a cumulative effect that launched my gigging circuit faster than I ever dreamed possible. Each gig has been an education, the same song is new each time it’s played, and every musician brings their own unique expression to the sound. Jazz is exciting, creative, intuitive and in-the-moment! Singing jazz has allowed me to be part of something greater than myself, and it’s what I love most of all.

This revolving ensemble assembled in 2018, and I am endlessly grateful.