I first saw Carolyn Leonhart when she sang backup for Steely Dan at the Memphis in May Music Festival some years ago.  I was with my little brother Rich, and we were pretty far back.  I said to him, “I’ve got to go up closer to see if that singer is as beautiful as she looks from way back here.”  I got back to him ten or fifteen minutes later (Steely Dan packed ’em in that night!) with an emphatic yes.

When I looked her up upon getting back home, my wife, the sweet Miss ViVi, asked, “Would you think she’s such a great singer if she didn’t look like that?”  To which I replied, “Oh, yeah.  Absolutely.  No doubt about.  Wait, actually, no.  Definitely not.”

But she is an extremely talented singer nonetheless.  And heart-meltingly gorgeous.