Pamela Z has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 30 episodes and was first played on 6 January 2016.

Raised in the Denver area, the African American Z received her bachelor's degree in music from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she studied classical voice. After performing throughout Colorado as a rock musician under the name Pam Brooks, in 1984 she moved to San Francisco, where her experiments with live digital delay vocal processing began leading her down a different artistic path, and she changed her name to Pamela Z. In performance today, she typically processes her live voice through MAX MSP…