Laurel Massé

Laurel Massé was an original member of the Manhattan Transfer and, although she has not became that famous in the years since, she has survived and is still a fine jazz singer. Her grandfather sang lead baritone with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians for four decades, while her mother was an opera singer. Massé had piano lessons as a child, played cello as a teenager in Paris, and taught herself the guitar in the 1960s. She sang in church choirs and in high school rock & roll bands. She was working as a waitress in Manhattan when she met Tim Hauser, who was working as a cabdriver a...