TONI LINCOLN

When vocalist Toni Lincoln was 5 years old, she liked to dress up in her grandmother’s vintage dresses and sing to her dolls which she neatly arranged on her bed as an audience for her impromptu concerts.  Little did she know that it would be more than 5 decades later that she would do her first real live singing appearance at a little subterranean Portland jazz club. In the audience that night at the Blue Monk was drummer Ron Steen who has been a catalyst and mentor for many major music careers for Northwest artists. Ron signed Toni up for several gigs in the Portland area and a singing career was born that night.  Influenced by such greats as Nancy Wilson, Dionne Warwick, and Sarah Vaughan. Toni has wowed audiences with her command of the Great American Songbook and her joyful sweet synthesis of the styles of those above mentioned read more...