Fay Victor

New Yorker Fay Victor is a vocalist, composer, lyricist, and educator whose work spans jazz, blues, opera, free improvisation, avant-garde, and modern classical music. Born in 1965 in New York to a Trinidadian mother, she spent childhood summers with her grandmother in Trinidad. She grew up with exposure to many kinds of music -- calypso, pop and rock, soul and funk, classical, and finally jazz, the possibilities of which intrigued her. They eventually settled in Long Island, where Victor spent her teenage years. After the sudden death of her mother when she was 19, she found...