Stacey Kent's voice operates at the intersection of knowingness and innocence. She delivers every song with finesse, balancing a sense of wide-eyed wonderment with soft-handed confidence. Perhaps that's why she's been able to build such an enormous fan base since starting her singing career and showing up on listener's radars near the turn of the century.

Kent came from New York and used England as a launching pad for her talent(s), but her art carries several passports. Her comfort and ease with English, French, Portuguese, Italian, and German allows her to travel easily between worlds. The first three languages on that list all figure into this fetching collection of music that's tied to Brazil.

The Changing Lights finds Kent fully immersed in the waters of the bossa nova. She sings old favorites, nodding to usual suspects like