Q-What does success mean to you?
 Pamela Luss: To me, success means leading a well adjusted life with family and friends and having work that is totally fulfilling. For me, it is being able to work as a vocalist, both as a live singer and a recording artist.

 Q-To YOU, what is more important success/fame or talent.
Pamela Luss: I am thinking of the Barbara Streisand song, “I Want Everything, Everything.”  Who wouldn’t want both talent and success?

Q-Any price an artist must pay to reach for stardom?
Pamela Luss: Ups and downs are stressful. It’s not like going to a regular job as it is much less structured. You have to spend a lot of time alone rehearsing, looking for the right work, and exploring new materials. This is sometimes lonely without daily interactions with colleagues.

Q-Did you pay that price?
Pamela Luss: Yes, The ideas above are based on my experience.

Q-What's next on your agenda? Performance, concerts, deals?
Pamela Luss: My next gig is on Tuesday, May 9 at Sweet Rhythm in NYC. I am looking forward to continuing to perform. Organizing my next CD is a priority.

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Her biography synopsis tells us that Pamela began many years of private vocal training. Her first coach was recommended by the Diller-Quaile School of Music in New York City. The priority was the correct use and development of her voice. Although offered a partial scholarship in voice at one school, Pamela chose New York University after being encouraged by the Dean of Music during her audition. While pursuing her singing and working in recruiting and human resources, Pamela was given the opportunity to perform as the solo vocalist for benefit concerts at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and for a season, as a regular at Bruno Jamais Restaurant Club. For the past year, she has been working full-time as a vocalist and has been performing at various clubs in New York City while developing her first CD. At Weill Recital Hall, Pamela met Vincent Herring, a world renowned saxophonist, who performed in the annual concerts and became Musical Director. Under his masterful direction, the concerts were comprised of performances by a variety of great jazz musicians, including Eric Reed, Richie Goods, Louis Hayes, Stefon Harris, Wallace Roney, and others. In 2005, Pamela went into the recording studio to cut her first CD. Vincent Herring was so taken with Pamela's talent and performances at Weill Hall that he agreed to produce and play on her debut recording. The band assembled reads like a Who's Who of contemporary jazz, featuring Mulgrew Miller, Tom Harrell, Richie Goods, Jeremy Pelt, Steve Turre, Russell Malone, Greg Hutchinson and others. Pamela has a great talent for getting to the heart of a lyric, of shaping a phrase with subtle insinuation and certainly is not intimated at all by her illustrious collaborators. The record, entitled "There's Something About You I Don't Know" will be released in early 2006 by New York-based Savant Records. "Pamela Luss, like Jane Monheit, Diana Krall and Michael Buble," says Vincent Herring, "is part of a new generation of vocalists with a passion for beautiful songs and the ability to bring them life." Jeremy Pelt added, "As far as jazz vocalists go, I've never heard anyone like her."