Cindy Lynn Bradley (born 1977) is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player and composer – although her signature instrument on stage has tended to become a bright metallic pink hybrid of both instruments known as a flumpet.Bradley was born in North Tonawanda in upstate New York. She already played piano, but picked up her first trumpet by accident at age nine because it was the only available instrument which she recognised in her teacher’s list for school band classes. She began playing traditional jazz as a schoolgirl and went on to gain degrees in jazz studies at Ithaca College in New York state and in jazz trumpet performance at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts