Stacey Kent is an American jazz singer. She is married to saxophonist Jim Tomlinson.Kent attended Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey. Her paternal grandfather was Russian. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and moved to England after graduation. While studying at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, she met saxophonist Jim Tomlinson, whom she married on August 9, 1991.In the early 1990s, she began her professional career singing regularly at Café Boheme in London's Soho. After two or three years, she began opening for established acts at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London. Her first album, Close Your Eyes, was released in 1997. Wikipedia