Cheryl Bentyne
[2][3] Following graduation from Mount Vernon High School,[1] she enrolled at Skagit Valley College and studied music and theater.[3] In 1979, Bentyne became the permanent replacement for singer Laurel Massé, who left the group after being injured in an automobile accident.Her first appearance was on the album Extensions (1979), which won the group its first Grammy Award, Best Jazz Fusion Performance for a vocalese version of the song "Birdland" by Weather Report.[5] Her debut solo album, Something Cool (Columbia, 1992), was produced by trumpeter Mark Isham and consisted of traditional pop and jazz standards.[8] In 2013, she narrated an audiobook version of the best-selling book Little Girl Blue, a biography of singer Karen Carpenter.