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The real show started at 60...
“I’m such a late bloomer,” says Linda Michelet, laughing. “I’m the latest of the late bloomers. I’m 10 years late for everything!”
Michelet is sipping a glass of wine in the bar of the Heathman Hotel, where she enjoys a monthly residency as one of the establishment’s favored performers. Read more >>>
— Barbara Mitchell, The Portland Tribune, 4.27.07
The Oregonian
At 60 she jazzed up her life: why don't you? she asks
"Don't tell Linda Lee Michelet she's heading into her "declining" years. Or if you do, be prepared for her laughter.
Four years ago Linda was 56 years old. She'd worked as a legal secretary
for TriMet for many years. She'd been married, raised two kids,
"tended the home fires," as she puts it, and then divorced.
Linda always had had a hankering to be a performer..." read the interview >>
— Margie Boulé, the Oregonian, 2.5.07
Jazz Society of Oregon Interview
"Linda Lee Michelet is a local, torchy, saloon style singer who brings a touch of class to her jazz renderings via both her song stylings and her elegant work garb. " read more >>
Raves for Linda Lee's cd 'Live'
Linda Lee
Michelet's well-performed
CD, recorded live at the Heathman Hotel, reprises Peggy Lee hits like Fever,
Why Don't You Do Right, I Lost My Sugar
in Salt Lake City and See See Rider. A solid group featuring
trumpet man Dick Titterington enhances Michelet's
clear, well-enunciated, jazz-tinged delivery. 
— George Fendel
Jazz Society of Oregon
"... Having written and or produced for some great Portland singers and musicians — including Michael Allen Harrison, Curtis Salgado, Shirley Nanette, Julie Ann Johnson, and Ellen Whyte — I think you are in the same league.
I am very picky when it comes to vocalists, but my 'sista', as they say
in the hood "Girl, you can sang" (and
I do mean SANG) ... Just keep believing in your
dreams — sometimes
they really do come true."
— Calvin Walker
Director of Development, KMHD 89.1 Jazz Radio
"In
order to record a live album, you not only have to
be brave, you must also have the talent to
back it up ...."
— Terry Currier
Music Millennium
"... The
proof is in the grooves"
— Ron Rogers, Producer
May 16, 2006
Overnight arrival on the P-town music scene happens
to be a TriMet private investigator named Linda Lee Michelet. Her debut album, Live
at the Heathman, where she sings the last Thursday of each month,
is a sophisticated evocation of Peggy Lee and Julie London.
Or, as Calvin Walker, development director at the jazz radio station KMHD, put it, "Girl you can sang!" More proof, as if it were needed, that guys can be sensitve, too.
— Phil Stanford
Portland Tribune
May 19, 2006
Boy, did I screw up. Torch singer
Linda Lee Michelet appears at the Heathman the last
Saturday (not Thursday) of every month.... Don't
miss it. Management says they would love to have her there more often, but
she's tied up with that private investigator job at TriMet.
— Phil Stanford
Portland Tribune
TriMet
legal secretary launches self as P.I. and Blues Singer
Linda Michelet’s
dramatic and sultry tribute to the legendary women of jazz evokes a reprise
of the “spirit of the
blues”. It also points to the revitalization of the human spirit...
LINDA LEE TAKES HER LISTENERS
on a musical journey rediscovering
some of the legendary female singers of American Jazz...
She is "Portland's
own honey-voiced siren"— Patrick
Russell
Online MusicNet
... Like the bubbles in a fine glass of champagne, she breezes throughout the room in constant motion, with personal touches of effervescence. These fleeting glimpses create a feeling of wonder, as if she’s singing just for you.
— Alex Fontana
Postively
Entertainment, June 2006
Bookings
Email linda lee or call 503-901-5135 for more information about future engagements.