Nicole Hart

Up-and-coming songwriter, bandleader, and vocalist Nicole Hart is one of the young lionesses in the blues world. Just as the jazz world has its share of "young lions" playing traditional jazz and making the music accessible again to younger audiences, Hart is doing much the same in the blues world, only she freely throws elements of gospel, funk, and roots rock into her live shows. The Atlanta-raised Hart's father was an opera singer and her mother a painter, so she was brought up in an artistic environment. By the time she was in second grade, she was singing in her church yo...