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A good singer who’s better at interpreting lyrics, provides soulful feeling to each tune, and improvises with subtlety, Lorez Alexandria was a favorite attraction for many years. She sang gospel music with her family members at churches beginning within the middle-’40s and proved helpful in Chicago nightclubs in the 1950s. …

Jazz vocalist/pianist Diane Marino was created in the brand new York Town borough of Manhattan and began piano lessons in age ten. She went to the SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL for the Performing Arts being a traditional piano major, after that examined piano with Murray Perahia on the Mannes University of …

One of the better jazz performers of her era, Dee Dee Bridgewater had to go to France to get herself. She performed in Michigan through the ’60s and toured the Soviet Union in 1969 using the University or college of Illinois Big Music group. She sang using the Thad Jones/Mel …

Spirit singer Jean Carn grew up in Atlanta, where her parents encouraged her in age 4 to sing within the chapel choir also to take piano lessons. (Certainly, for many years she continued to be an achieved performer on piano, clarinet, and bassoon.) She first exposed her formidable musical skills …

An understated, active singer within jazz and popular requirements, Etta Jones was a fantastic singer always well worth hearing. She was raised in NY with 16, toured with Friend Johnson. She debuted on record with Barney Bigard’s pickup music group (1944) for Dark & White, performing four Leonard Feather tunes, …

Carmen McRae constantly had a good voice (otherwise on the out of the question degree of an Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan) nonetheless it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and ironic interpretations of lyrics that produced her most remarkable. She researched piano in early stages and got her first essential job …

Eartha Kitt epitomized the thought of the sex-kitten chanteuse, growing to fame using a nightclub action devoted to her slinky stage existence and her throaty purr of the voice. Just as much as she appreciated vamping it up, she also projected the picture of an incredible international sophisticate, specifically since …

Jazz vocalist Clairdee’s warm, effervescent, and sassy design has not just earned her rave evaluations but also a good fan base, which the famed Nancy Wilson is an associate. Given birth to Barbara Clairdee in Tucson, AZ, Clairdee spent most her early years in Denver, CO, but as an Air …

Despite a documenting career that prolonged for nearly 2 decades, including a stint in the famed Motown label, Barbara McNair continues to be better-known as an actress than as a singer, making use of both skills because the star of her own eponymously-titled television variety series. Given birth to January …

Although Heart reconquered the charts through the middle- to past due ’80s, the band forfeited the organic sound of the early recordings and only pop gloss. By the first ’90s, the Wilson sisters (vocalist Ann and guitarist Nancy) had been ready to go back to their origins, which they attemptedto …