About Nancy

I'm a jazz/cabaret singer who makes the best chocolate chip cookies in the world, lives in the paradise of Sonoma County, CA, has the most kind and loving husband ever and cares for a mischievious cat called Ceci a.k.a, Sweasle.

Born in Newport Beach, California, I grew up singing with my older sister, Diana, and torturing my baby brother, Bob. He's a Colonel in the Army now and I know it's all my fault. In high school, under the influence of a very diabolical voice teacher, I decided to become an opera singer. That dream fizzled in my first year of college at Indiana University. I was told I wasn't opera material. Unfortunately, no one told me that that was really good news. I was devastated.

I finished my Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance at the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific, a truly fabulous place. As soon as I graduated, I stopped singing and didn't sing again for 18 years. I was burnt out.

When I turned 39 years old, I decided to start singing again. I thought, hey, it would be cool to start singing now, and then, when I turned 40, I could invite my friends over for a little party and sing for them. Well, that little party became a two-set show at a local theatre with 150 of my closest friends. It was wild! And it was the beginning of my career as a semi-professional singer.

When I'm not singing with my hot jazz trio, The Boys, I'm teaching people how to feel completely confident and at ease anytime they are speaking or performing. I created The Wild Voice blog because I love singers and I want to support them in becoming fearless, ourtrageous and free in their art. I want them to fully have the joy of their own Wild Voice.