Nominated for a Grammy back in 2009 for her album, Breakfast On The Morning Tram, Stacey Kent is a prolific singer in both French and English. Throughout her long career she has been skirting between different forms of jazz and, more recently, bossa nova, a move that gave her the opportunity to tour and record with the legendary Marcos Valle. She is also well known for working with poets and writers in the composition process, seeking their expertize for lyrics that she then interprets through the prism of her voice. A long-standing collaborator (and a writer of her liner notes) is Kazuo Ishiguro, the much-loved British novelist of Japanese origin known for works such as Remains of the Day, Time and Never Let Me Go.