Since moving to Central Texas in November, 2018, Glenda is making her home in Round Rock. She has performed at the Elephant Room with the Austin Jazz Band; The Skylark Lounge and Anderson Mills Pub with the Chris Jones Quartet; Y’All’s Café with the Andre Hayward Trio; at Monks Jazz with the Glenda Davenport Quintet; and at Horseshoe Bay Resort with Jacob Wise. She is currently singing monthly at Ichiro Asian Bistro and Wine Bar in Georgetown with the Chris Jones Trio with Andre Hayward and Ari Carvajal.

Glenda was born and raised in New York. She started her professional singing career in June 1992. She was a winner at The World Famous Apollo Theater’s Amateur Night in April 1993. She performed at the Saratoga (NY) Jazz Festival July 1995 and the Binghamton Jazz Festival July 2010-2017 with the Miles Ahead Jazz Quartet. Additional venues in New York City include the Village Gate, Birdland, the Kitano Hotel, Iridium Jazz Club, the Metropolitan Room; and the Shanghai Jazz Club, Madison, NJ.

One of the many highlights of her career was her performance in Washington, DC at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium in 2017 with Michael Weiss, Dezron Douglas and George Fludas honoring the WWI Harlem Hell Fighters who introduced American Jazz to France in 1917. The program was called “Jazz Meets France.”

Glenda has recorded two CDs, “Sophisticated Lady” and “More Than You Know”.