You've heard the buzz about the resident singer, a 23-year-old black woman called Billie Holiday who made her name up in Harlem with Count Basie's band.
As part of the Keynotes she was a resident singer on the BBC comedy series Take It From Here, but she retired to raise her family and to support her husband, the showbusiness manager and agent, Tito Burns.
An early highlight of the trip was being serenaded by an energetic, ancient man who was either the hotel's original resident singer or just a very enthusiastic guest, performing a Taylor Swift/Katy Perry mash-up on a lute, complete with authentic dance moves, while I enjoyed my complimentary Greek buffet-for-one and sampled the rosé wine selection.
Further, she had been briefly married to one of the resident singers, Reginald Paget Tom Courtenayy), who still seethes over their breakup.
A Conductor's New Gig For many years, Jun Nakabayashi was an assistant conductor at the San Jose Opera in California, a group known for performing with resident singers.
Calais native Louise Druelle, 22, is a campaigner for the migrants in her town and was entranced by the deep voices of Galloo's resident singers – respected musicians in their homeland – Nasser Dkam, Al Sadig and Mohamd "MZ".
It's more ambitious than any of her previous projects, both in terms of the songs – which are, each and every one of them, solid gold tunes – and the influences, which teeter towards classic 1970s/1980s pop, such as ELO, Blondie, Bowie and Fleetwood Mac. Brown is tickled by comparisons to Fleetwood Mac's resident torch singer, Stevie Nicks, but remains unconvinced.
Other residents include singer Beyoncé Knowles, television news anchor Brian Williams, former General Electric head Jack Welch and current Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt Jeffrey Immelt, who bought his spread just a few months ago.
In 1966 he met Myrna Hague, a Jamaican singer resident in London, and in 1980 she joined him in Kingston.
When one elderly resident, an opera singer, returned from the hospital in a wheelchair, the maintenance employees had already been alerted and had widened her doorway.
The woman's voice was light and girlish, sometimes pouting; the man, the Residents' longtime lead singer, had a homely drawl that could become a howl.
