Nancy Priddy - Biography

Nancy Priddy, actress, singer, songwriter, began her professional music career in Greenwich Village, New York as one of the Bitter End Singers. She worked simultaneously as a musician and actress, doing double time in such varied endeavors as commercials, playing Ophelia in the New York Shakespeare Company's musical version of Hamlet and writing the lyrics and recording her own album produced by Grammy Award winning Producer Phil Ramone. One of Nancy's writing partners was a young producer with Columbia Records named John Simon. At that time Mr. Simon was producing a new recording artist from Canada named Leonard Cohen. Nancy assisted her friend John in completing Mr. Cohen's album by adding her sweet whispy background vocals to such now classics as Suzanne, So Long Marianne, and Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye.

In 1969 she married Bob Applegate...a record producer with the label to which she was signed...Dot Records. Two years later her daughter Christina was born. Nancy turned primarily to acting, making many T.V. appearances, stage appearances, and an occasional feature film. But her love for music and songwriting never waned. In the early nineties she started recording some of the numerous compositions she had compiled over the years. Can We Talk About It Now? is a CD of a few of those songs. Mama's Jam is her most recent CD. Her latest single is called Little Girls From Canada Don't Lie...a tribute to friendship and also to just a few of the many fine musical artists of Canada.