Biography
31 March 1949, Evanston, Illinois, USA. Starting to sing in school choirs, Podewell also learned piano and sang folk music through college, accompanying herself on guitar. From an early age she had been influenced by music on record at home, classical and musical comedy, but after graduating with a degree in sociology-psychology she was turned on to jazz through hearing Lee Wiley on record. She was also attracted to the standards of the Great American Songbook but continued with her studies, earning a masters degree in early childhood education from the Erikson Institute, Chicago. Meanwhile, however, she had continued to develop her interest in singing and in 1975 became a full time performer. This was in Chicago clubs, in particular Rick’s Café Americain, where she sang with jazz luminaries such as Vic Dickenson, Red Richards and Doc Cheatham. Mostly, however, she sang with local trios or accompanied herself on guitar. In 1979,...
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