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Sue Oatts

NEWS FLASH...Sue Tucker has returned home to her birth name - SUE OATTS

About Me

I come from a family of known jazz musicians. “My father, Jack Oatts, was one of the first jazz educators in Iowa. Music was always around... mostly jazz.” My brothers, Jim and Dick Oatts, are also internationally known and respected jazz artists.

Before I took up singing, I was blowin' my tenor sax in jazz band and playing a duet with Clark Terry at a jazz festival on my clarinet. “I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I've tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just as important as sound.”

After attending college, Sue began a studio career producing and singing jingles and industrials with a voice-over thrown in on occasion. She spent seven years teaching music theory, vocal studio techniques and coordinating the ensemble dept. at McNally Smith College of Music in downtown St. Paul and six years as Assistant Director of Education and Registrar at the Institute of Production & Recording in downtown Minneapolis. Sue has finished her B.S. in Business Administration and is currently back at McNally Smith College of Music as the Associate Registrar. She's been a board member of the Twin Cities Jazz Society and you'll find her at various night spots in the Twin Cities and beyond singing her cool jazz.

All of Sue's CD's are available at this web site, Amazon.com, CDBaby, iTunes and at all live performances.

For gigs and tour info, check out the gig page on my website.