Nicolette Blount Songwriter

Nicolette Blount, modern day renaissance woman,  is a singer, songwriter, actress, writer, vocal coach, producer, artist, and designer.  She is the creator, cowriter, co-composer, co-lyricist and one of the producers for the new musical, Savage, which is  inspired by a true story of her Great Grandma, Chickasaw Sharpshooting Starlet, Wanda Savage.  (savagethemusical.com).  Born and raised in Southern California, Nicolette has been singing since she could speak, and has been writing poetry, fiction, and music since elementary school.  She began performing professionally in fifth grade with the Southern California Girls Choir.   She sang at Carnegie Hall and performed in two operas, Tosca and Turnadot  with the Palm Springs and Riverside Civic Operas.  Nicolette has also performed on T.V. and radio.  Some of her fondest memories while living in California are singing in the trio In Christ and singing backup vocals for Chariya Bissonette. While living in Hawaii, Nicolette wrote and recorded her first album called Conversations.   She won awards in NATS competitions two years in a row and sang, danced hula, and toured Hawaiian Islands with the Kanikapila Singers.  In addition, she started a nonprofit through which she organized and produced an annual festival of local visual and performing artists.   Some of her favorite roles were in Metamorphoses (Woman At The Well, Nurse Maid),  Mary Poppins (Ms. Andrews), Beauty and the Beast (Madame De La Grande Bouche ) and in Into the Woods (Cinderella's Step Mother).  In addition to going to school for voice and theatre, she pursued fashion design.  She enjoys fashion illustration in her spare time, owned and designed for her own children's line, Lil Lollipops, and has been a costume designer for select musicals.  Nicolette has studied voice under Chariya Bissonette, Dr. William Chunestuary, and Marilyn Kim and studied acting under Dr. Paul Cravath.  She currently resides in Massachusetts with her family were she continues to work on cowriting the book, lyrics and songs for Savage the Musical and preforms in local theatre. Nicolette is a member of the Dramatist Guild and ASCAP.