Artist: Stacey Kent

Date of Release: 01/01/2000

Catalogue no: 424

Label: Candid

Price: £9

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Stacey Kent has won recognition and respect the world over with her sublime take on the Great American Songbook. Regularly compared in style to Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, Miss Kent's voice is truly peerless. Bolder and more mature than on previous outings, The Boy Next Door sees Stacey perform songs associated with some of her musical heroes Tony Bennett, Burt Bacharach, Nat King Cole to name a few. From the heartrending 'Say It Isn't So,' inspired by Perry Como to her truly individual take on James Taylor's 'You've Got A Friend,' the 16 track album is a delight from start to finish.

Reviews

01/01/2000 Jonathan Schwartz, National Public Radio (USA)

A new masterpiece! STACEY KENT'S THE BOY NEXT DOOR! "The Boy Next Door is a stunning ascension of intuitive, intimate singing in a voice as singular as there currently is.”

01/01/2000 Humphrey Lyttelton

'I sat through Boy Next Door alone, at dead of night, with a silly great grin on my face, sometimes shouting with joy, sometimes applauding, sometimes vainly trying to swallow a lump in the throat. Everything about it -- the choice of songs, the musical interplay, the glorious voice -- leaves one searching for a more superlative word than 'greatest' !' -