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Veronica Nunn
Biography
Veronica Nunn is a veteran jazz vocalist who has been active on the New York City jazz scene since the late '70s and has performed extensively with the well known singer/composer Michael Franks. Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan, Abbey Lincoln and Billie Holiday are among the jazz vocalists who reviewers have cited as direct or indirect influences on Nunn, but the singer has stressed that her major influences are not only vocalists, but instrumentalists as well. In fact, Nunn has emphasized that tenor saxophonists John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Lester Young, Ben Webster and Gene Ammons were as important to her musical development as singers. Nunn has said that her singing has been greatly affected by "the horn players who had really warm tones" as well as by pianist McCoy Tyner.

Although Nunn has spent much of her life in New York City, she is not a native New Yorker; Nunn was born and raised in Little Rock, AR. Growing up in the Deep South, Nunn listened to a great deal of jazz but was also heavily into soul, funk, rock, blues and gospel. In 1978, she moved to the Big Apple and supported herself with a non-musical job at Gimble's Department Store on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Selected Discography