Song bird Carla Normand featured in audio biography

Lovely Carla Normand, the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra’s female vocalist, is the star of “The Carla Normand Story,” an audio biography released this July by Craig Roberts of KCEA radio. The 73-minute long program can be heard or downloaded for free here. The program is an engaging window on some of Normand’s favorite songs, her musical influences and personal history.

Carla Normand is a two-time Art Deco Society of California Preservation Award winner, in 2002 as a member of the RSJO, and in 2024 for her own major contributions to musical preservation, interpreting the repertoire of 1920s and 1930s dance music, with impeccable period styling and a clarity of tone and phrasing that is simply “too marvelous for words.” Roberts is also an Art Deco Preservation Award winner for his promotion of Deco-era music in radio.

Appearing with the RSJO since 1975, Normand also made a wonderful solo album, “Just You, Just Me.”

The RSJO is retiring this year, but we are so grateful to have had their music as the amazing soundtrack for so many years of ADSC events. Presently, contributions to Carla’s GoFundMe are welcome, as she battles Parkinson’s disease while always doing her best to stay “on the sunny side of life.”

We wish Carla all the best! Please visit her page and send her your well-wishes.