Lucy Woodward

Lucy Woodward is an English-American singer-songwriter. She has released four studio albums on Atlantic Records, Barnes & Noble and Verve Records. She has contributed to a number of movie soundtracks and has also performed backing vocals for Rod Stewart, Snarky Puppy, Celine Dion, Pink Martini, Gavin DeGraw, Joe Cocker, Chaka Khan, Nikka Costa and Randy Jackson. She co-wrote Stacie Orrico's Top 40 worldwide hit "(There's Gotta Be) More to Life" the same year her own Top 40 single "Dumb Girls" charted in 2003. In 2016, her fourth album Til They Bang on the Door was released on Snarky Puppy bandleader Michael League’s label, GroundUP Music/Verve/Universal. 2Early life Born in London, Woodward is the daughter of British conductor and composer Kerry Woodward and his American wife, a former staff editor on The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians who studied opera. Her parents helped edit a performance edition of Viktor Ullmann's opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis and mounting its first performances in many countries. When her father was appointed musical director of the Netherlands Chamber Choir, the family moved to Amsterdam. Two years later her parents separated. Woodward, her brother, and her mother moved to New York, near her maternal grandparents, James Halitsky, a meteorologist, and Sylvia, an educational psychologist at a residential treatment center for court-referred childre