1. Lucy Woodward has released records on Atlantic, Verve, and GroundUP and has sung with many artists including Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand, Snarky Puppy, Celine Dion, Pink Martini, Gavin DeGraw, Joe Cocker, Chaka Khan, Nikka Costa, and Randy Jackson.
Lucy Woodward co-wrote Stacie Orrico's Top 40 hit " More to Life".
Lucy Woodward's parents mounted the first performances of Viktor Ullmann's opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis, which Ullmann composed while interned in a Nazi concentration camp.
Lucy Woodward's family moved to Amsterdam when her father was appointed musical director of the Netherlands Chamber Choir.
Lucy Woodward attended high school in The Bronx and sang house music in her friends' basements.
At the age of 16, Lucy Woodward was accepted to the Manhattan School of Music to study jazz, but after a year she decided to drop out to focus on songwriting and performing.
Lucy Woodward spent the next few years in swing organ trios, including The Sugarman 3, working as a session singer, a waitress, and singing jazz standards in restaurants in Greenwich Village.
In 2003 Lucy Woodward signed with Atlantic Records and recorded her debut album While You Can, which entered the Top 150 on the Billboard 200.
Lucy Woodward toured internationally and appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Lucy Woodward appeared on Randy Jackson's 2008 album Randy Jackson's Music Club, Vol.
Lucy Woodward contributed songs to the soundtracks for Last Vegas, The Blind Side, Ice Princess, Music and Lyrics, What a Girl Wants, First Daughter, and Accepted.
Lucy Woodward co-wrote the Stacie Orrico Top 40 worldwide hit "There's Gotta Be More to Life", which earned her a BMI Christian Music Award in 2003 and a BMI Songwriter's Pop Award in 2004.
In 2010, Lucy Woodward co-wrote and recorded "Daylight as Sunset" for Earthrise Soundsystem's debut The Yoga Sessions.
Lucy Woodward wrote much of the album with Dan Petty and Michelle Lewis, saying that she had been inspired by the music of Peggy Lee and Django Reinhardt.
Lucy Woodward toured throughout the US, including with jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy, which played on her cover version of "Be My Husband" by Nina Simone.
In 2011, Lucy Woodward started working with Snarky Puppy bandleader Michael League.
League performed in Lucy Woodward's touring band, and Lucy Woodward opened for Snarky Puppy with them as her backing band.
Lucy Woodward sang "Too Hot to Last" on the band's album Family Dinner - Volume 1.
Lucy Woodward appeared in the 2011 Garry Marshall film New Year's Eve where she played the backing vocalist for Jon Bon Jovi and Lea Michele.
Lucy Woodward was featured in the September 2011 issue of Italian Vogue as one of the year's top up-and-coming female recording artists.
Lucy Woodward released her fourth album Til They Bang on the Door in 2016.
Lucy Woodward has sung with the Dave Richards Big Band in Los Angeles and with the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra.
Lucy Woodward recently performed with the hr-Bigband with arrangements and conducting by Jim McNeely.
In 2018, Lucy Woodward was asked to perform a duo tour with jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter after his original tour collaborator Silvana Estrada had to cancel last minute because of visa issues.
Lucy Woodward has sung background vocals for Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Carole King, Joe Cocker, Barbra Streisand, The Doobie Brothers, Michael Bolton, Nikka Costa, Gavin DeGraw, and Monkey House.
Lucy Woodward has performed for the UN Mine Action Service and at the Millennium Development Goals Awards.
Lucy Woodward sang for Desmond Tutu at a benefit for the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation.
Lucy Woodward served with World Central Kitchen in Przemysl, Poland in April 2022 to cook for Ukrainian refugees during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.