Nancy LaMott

Nancy LaMott was a cabaret singer and recording artist whose career was cut short when she died of uterine cancer in 1995. Nancy began performing in her father's band in Midland, Michigan, before moving to San Francisco in the late 1970s where she became a popular chanteuse in the Plush Room and other Bay Area nightclubs. She moved to New York in the early 1980s where she worked as a waitress until she got her big break performing in a revue called, "It's Better With a Band". Battling Crohn's Disease and other physical ailments throughout her life, her career caught fire in the 1990s after an operation brought her symptoms under control and she could perform regularly in the cabarets and nightclubs in midtown Manhattan as well as releasing an album a year during the final five years of her life.