Priscilla Herdman, born February 11, 1948, in Eastchester, New York, is an American folk singer. She attended the University of Iowa and later graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. While working in the fashion industry, she began performing in coffeehouses and church basements, eventually moving to Philadelphia in 1976 to pursue a professional singing career. Her first album, The Water Lily, was released in 1977 on the Philo label. In 1980, her second album, Forgotten Dreams, featured covers of contemporary North American songwriters and was released on Flying Fish Records. Herdman moved to Pine Plains, New York, in 1982, where she met her husband, Dick Hermans. She released Darkness into Light in 1987 and Daydreamer (1993), including collaborations with Anne Hills and Cindy Mangsen, such as Voices of Winter (1997), and The Road Home (2003).
