Joan Rivers candidly told CYBILL SHEPHERD that she was “Queen of the F’ng Lucky Club,” something she embraced wholeheartedly. She was 16 when she won the Miss Teenage Memphis pageant. After graduating high school, she followed up on a model agency invitation to New York and was named winner of the Model of The Year pageant. As a result, Her career soared. It was one look at Cybill on a Glamour magazine cover by Peter Bogdanovich that landed the 21-year-old her breakthrough movie role in The Last Picture Show. This glance catapulted her acting career and led her to be cast in The Heartbreak Kid and Taxi Driver. She went on to receive four Golden Globes and multiple Emmy nominations.

While most have known Cybill from TV and film, she says “I was a singer first.”  At age nine, she was invited to join Holy Communion Episcopal Church choir in Memphis and was training with a vocal coach by sixteen. During her high school years, she started a folk group, Cybill and Friends, that surprisingly generated income. Cybill leaned into her Memphis roots, creating a diverse & extensive repertoire including jazz standards, blues, and pop. In the live on-screen musical comedy At Long Last Love and the notable TV roles in The Cybill Show and Moonlighting with Bruce Willis gave her the opportunity to exhibit her live musical talent.

As “luck” would have it, Cybill has performed on acclaimed stages from New York to London. She collaborated with the likes of Stan Getz, Artie Butler, Sid Selvidge & Oscar Castro-Neves and other superb jazz musicians, recording 11 CDs.

Cybill steps back in the spotlight with a passion for connecting us through song. She invites us to join her on a musical journey that  celebrates the enduring magic and memory of music.

“SUNNIE PAXSON has established a reputation as an innovative contemporary jazz pianist, composer and producer known for her driving performances and memorable melodies.

She is excited to announce her new upcoming single, “Chance Acquaintance,” to be released on MADCatfish Records. The song was co-written and produced with Stanley Clarke. This song features two bass players, Stanley Clarke and Sekou Bunch, guitarist Paul Jackson, Jr., drummer Gordon Campbell, percussionist Bill Summers and a horn section. LaQuetta Shamblee, MADCatfish CEO is the executive producer.

Sunnie is the Musical Director for several other unique projects, including the roles of composer and arranger for the “Homeland Swingin’ “recording project, a special jazz and blues tribute to America produced by The Instrumental Women™ Project (a nonprofit that features performances and recordings by all-women ensembles). Three singles have been completed, with the first, “Let Freedom Ring, “scheduled for release in November 2025.

Sunnie serves as the Musical Director for singer/actress Cybill Shepherd. They have been busy presenting a series of shows for Cybill’s new nightclub/concert show “Queen of The Lucky Club!” For eight years she also served as music director for “The Women of Jazz All Star Band” at the Annual Palm Springs Women’s Jazz Festival produced by Sweet Baby Jai’. A native of Philadelphia, Paxson comes from a musical family. She attended Berklee College of Music and the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts. Sunnie has toured and recorded with Stanley Clarke and she has shared the stage and or recorded with a lengthy list of jazz greats including Doug Webb, Alphonse Mouzon, Justo Almario, Munyungo Jackson, Maysa, Dwight Trible, Pamela Williams and others. Her talents as a composer, arranger and performer are documented in a string of feature films, television shows and jingles. Her debut solo album, “Groove Suite” is a contemporary work that created a buzz on the international jazz scene. It included her funk-inspired arrangement of “Do It (‘Til You’re Satisfied)” and “The Stroll” featuring special guest, Larry Carlton. This recording project landed her on the Jazz Week list of Top100 Artists receiving the most spins and Los Angeles Magazine lauded her as one of the “Best Jazz Performers in LA.” Her “Bohemian Sun” CD, released on Stanley Clarke’s Roxboro Entertainment label and recorded with Stanley Clarke, Ronald Brunner Jr, and Munyungo Jackson is a show of her solid jazz roots. This CD has been very well received by radio throughout the world. Along with doing shows with her own band, for the past decade Sunnie has performed regularly with Ray Sidney and his gospel band Firm Soundation, touring to Tokyo and Mito (sister city of Anaheim CA) to perform and record with a 400-voice choir. This fulfills Sunnie’s love of Gospel music as heard on her original composition “Say A Prayer” on her Bohemian Sun CD and “Spirit’s in The House” on her Wild Soul CD. “ Writing, producing, arranging and performing are all facets of the art of music that I love. My goal is to make people feel good,” sums up how she feels about her lifelong passion. She takes the joys and the heartbreaks of life and transforms them into songs.