Lucy Blanco

Lucy Blanco’s family roots are in Santa Rosa de Agua, Honduras, Central America. Her parents migrated to the Bronx in 1964 where she was born. Her life was forever changed when she got a chance to attend an Artist in Residence program at The Conservatory of Music in Den Hague with Dr. Barry Harris as a member of The Radiant Voices. She performed at The 8th Annual Lady Got Chops Jazz Festival founded by Kim Clarke. She is a founding member of the Afri-Garifuna Jazz Ensemble with Garifuna musician James Lovell. The ensemble is developing a new musical concept of fusing the music of her Garifuna ancestry with America’s classical music, jazz.