Terry Blaine

Graduating summa cum laude from the State University of New York (Buffalo) with a degree in classical flute and music and where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Terry Blaine has taken a roundabout route to jazz. The 1970s saw her performing with Top 40 bands and doing studio work in and around New York City before she went off on a world tour as a backup singer for pop group Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons. Blaine reports that you haven't lived as a stage performer until you've heard 10,000 fans singing right back at you one of Valli's biggest hits, "Big Girls Don't Cry-Yi-...