Vocalist Claudette stone grew up near LA. in san Bernardino, California. Her mother and father were both musicians and entertainers and her earliest recollections are of sleeping "off stage", while her parents were performing.

She started playing piano at age three and except for some early assistance from her grandmother, is self- taught. She discovered her idols, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, George shearing and Oscar Peterson while still in her early teens.

During her childhood, Claudette was acclaimed for her lovely singing voice but at fourteen, for reasons still unknown, she suddenly totally lost her voice. She regained her speech within a couple of weeks, but it was a full seven years before she even attempted to sing again. 

At twenty-two she began practicing in earnest. It was seven years before she regained any confidence and still another seven years before she regained the control and quality she now possesses.

Later, while living in Reno, she joined her church choir and soon found herself being asked to sing at weddings and other social functions. After moving to Sacramento in 1966 she became the vocalist with a local Disco band which led to bigger and better club dates, both singing and playing piano.    It was at about this time she became part of the cast of the Fats Waller show, "Ain’t Misbehaving."

A few years later she formed her own jazz group. "Stone Jazz Creations" Now, and for the past fourteen years, she has been featured, locally and at festivals all around the country and in Europe, with Dick Johnson’s Mardi Gras Band. 

Her latest, of five albums, “How Do You Keep The Music Playing ”was released with rave reviews in 2003. Her latest triumph was in winning, in October of 2003, the “Great Ladies Of Song Award” at the prestigious Sun Valley, Idaho Jazz Festival.

Claudette stone is, In the words of Harvey Barkin’s review in the ”LA  Jazz Times”         ”A Class  Act”