Sylvia Syms
- 86% match to Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra
Sylvia Blagman, 2 December 1917, Brooklyn, USA, d. 10 May 1992, New York City, New York, USA. One of America’s most distinguished cabaret and jazz singers with a profound appreciation of lyrics, Syms overcame polio as a child, and in her teens discovered the delights of jazz in the clubs of New York’s 52nd Street. Inspired and informally trained by Billie Holiday,
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Dolores Gray
- 82% match to Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra
7 June 1924, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 26 June 2002, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. A dynamic, full-blooded singer, early in her career Gray sang on radio with Milton Berle and Rudy Vallee. Making her Broadway debut in Cole Porter’s Seven Lively Arts (1944), she went on to appear in Are You With It? and Sweet Bye And Bye in 1946, and was then chosen by Richa
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Carla Cook
- 81% match to Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra
Detroit, Michigan, USA. Singing from a very early age, Cook was in the Angelic Choir of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in her home town. She studied, singing, piano and bass and although her studies were focused on the classical form, her interest lay in jazz. Cook lived in Boston for a while before settling in New York. There, she has worked in a variety of musica
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Martha Tilton
- 81% match to Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra
14 November 1915, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA, d. 8 December 2006, Brentwood, California, USA. ‘The Liltin’ Miss Tilton’, as she was often introduced by radio announcers, spent much of her early life in and around Los Angeles, appearing on local radio during the mid-30s. She sang with various bands including Jimmy Dorsey in 1936, then appeared with a vocal grou
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Rene Marie
- 80% match to Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra
René Marie Stevens, 7 November 1955, Warrenton, Virginia, USA. When René Marie was nine years old, her family moved to Roanoke, Virginia, by which time she was singing and also learning to play piano. In her mid-teens she sang R&B in a group called the Majestics that was formed by fellow teenagers in the neighbourhood. At 18, she married the piano player in
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Ernie Andrews
- 79% match to Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra
25 December 1927, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Andrews was raised in Louisiana but by his mid-teens was living in Los Angeles where he attracted attention through singing at talent shows. He also sang with visiting bands, including Andy Kirk’s, and made a handful of records that were sufficiently popular to convince him that he was in the right business. Although in
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Nancy Kelly
- 77% match to Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra
USA. As a child, Kelly showed considerable musical aptitude. Later, she studied classical piano, clarinet and voice at the Eastman School of Music. To this she added drama and dance studies. By the time that she began to make an impression on the club circuit in New York state, she had turned herself into an immensely talented all-round entertainer, singing and playing piano
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