WELCOME
Vocalist Suzanna Smith and pianist/arranger Lee Bloom have played together on the Bay Area scene for nearly two decades. In 2012 they founded THE PEGGY LEE PROJECT, a musical and multimedia collaboration that honors Peggy Lee and her influence on American popular music — as a singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
THE PEGGY LEE PROJECT is releasing a new recording in Spring 2023 that broadly explores and reimagines the iconic singer’s vast legacy — a lush and swinging intersection of jazz and pop.
“There are relatively few contemporary female vocalists who evoke Peggy Lee, at least not genuinely. Suzanna Smith, new to recording but a seasoned pro who has been honing her artistry in and around the Bay Area for over a decade, numbers among that rare ilk.
That Smith sounds like Lee—slightly breathy and warmly sensual with a hint of huskiness—is undeniable, but the parallels extend much further. Lee’s ability to not just caress a ballad but smother it in mink has seldom been matched. She was also a sage swinger—never too much, never too little—as well as a first-rate songwriter. Smith checks all those boxes.”
