Lucy Shropshire first sang and played keyboard publicly in church, then studied music and voice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After college, she performed on the East Coast before relocating to Reno, Nevada, in 1981. Performing locally, she won the Reno Area Music Award for Best Jazz Vocalist in 1985. She moved to Bermuda, where, in 1986, she won first prize in the United Nations Year of Peace Songwriting Contest for her composition "Come Together World" and opened for Dizzy Gillespie in September 1990 at Harrah's Reno Convention Center. She moved to Las Vegas in 1988, and there she worked as both a singer and a vocal coach, notably in the musical EFX in 1996, working with David Cassidy. She recorded with Gladys Knight in 1998, and in 2001, she appeared in a touring production of the Broadway musical Sophisticated Ladies with Mary Wilson and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. She self-released her debut album, Jazzy Me!, recorded with the Brian Derek Trio, and 11 years later, in 2016, Til Then was released. ~ William Ruhlmann