Cindy Cain brought her attitude-laden, often saucy jazz and blues vocals to Tulsa in 2001 and quickly made her mark by being nominated three years running, since 2003, for Best Jazz Act in the Tulsa World's annual Spotnik Music Awards.  While working the D.C.-area music circuit, she was regularly nominated for best blues and best jazz vocals by her peers in the Washington Area Music Association.  She is currently in the studio working on her second cd which will feature her original music which she thinks of as swingy rock-pop-country blues.

Raised in Pryor, Cain honed her style during more than a decade of performances in the Washington, D.C. area. She performed an average of 140 club, restaurant, private party and festival dates annually while working full time as manager and bandleader of her variously configured blues and jazz groups.

Her performance schedule took her from prestigious venues like Blues Alley, D.C.'s premier jazz club, and the Kennedy Center to juke-joint dives like the Twist & Shout and Madam's Organ. In addition, she has opened shows for Al Franken, Maria Muldaur and the late Danny Gatton.

For several years, she served as the exclusive music booking agent for D.C.'s Kramerbooks, known, generally, as one of the places where Mary Chapin Carpenter got her start and, infamously, as the bookstore whose records were subpoenaed by special prosecutors seeking information on Monica Lewinsky's book-buying and gift-giving habits.

Since relocating to Tulsa, Cain has been a featured performer in the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame's Cole Porter revue and Divas of Jazz show, Jazz on Greenwood, Tulsa County's 2004 July 4th spectacular, and, three Divas for HOPE benefit concerts. She has also performed at Tulsa International Mayfest, Tulsa Country Club, Natura Winery, Philbrook's Jazz on the Terrace, The Market at Kingspointe, Suede, the Bowery, the Velvet Room, St. Michaels Alley, Lanna Thai, Bourbon St., Lola’s and Cabin Creek Winery.

In 2004, Cain debuted at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center as part of its SummerStage program which included her sold out show, “Something Cool.”  She followed that in 2005 with “Live and Swingin’ at the Casbar Lounge,” in which she and Max Wisley reprised the duets of Louis Prima and Keely Smith.

From 1997 until relocating to Tulsa in 2001, she was regularly nominated for best blues and best jazz vocals by the Washington Area Music Association. Cain released her well-reviewed debut CD in 1998 and in 2000 was called “one of the best singers on Washington's blues scene” by a Washington Post writer. In 1998 she received five Wammie nominations by her peers: best blues vocals, blues recording, traditional jazz vocals, traditional jazz recording, and debut release.

Tulsa television appearances include KOTV's Ch. 6’s Six in the Morning newscast and KJRH's Ch. 2 Midday News. She also appeared on D.C.'s FOX Ch. 5, WJLA Ch. 7 and independent shows, “Inside the Blues” and “The Music Shop.” Washingtonian Magazine named Cain's band in 1999 and 2000 one of the best “hot” reception bands based on their ability to keep the dance floor hopping.

D.C.-area festival work included the Kennedy Center, D.C., 1994; D.C. Blues Festival, 1995 and 2000; Bluebird Blues Festival, MD, 1998; Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival, 1998; Alexandria Jazz Festival, VA, 1999; and, Columbia Pike Blues Festival, VA, 2000.

Cain landed her first singing gig in 1988 with a Cameroonian jazz quartet while working in that West African nation as a Peace Corps volunteer. From 1995 to 2000, Cain worked as a full-time bandleader and booking agent. Earlier she worked as a journalist with the Muskogee Phoenix and served six years as press secretary to U.S. Rep. Dave McCurdy in D.C. She now works in public relations in the telecommunications industry.