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Tony Bennett - 87% match to Manhattan Transfer

Anthony Dominick Benedetto, 13 August 1926, Astoria, New York, USA. The son of an Italian father and American mother, Bennett studied music and painting at the High School of Industrial Arts. He later became a talented artist, exhibiting under his real name in New York, Paris... Read more

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - 82% match to Manhattan Transfer

In the late 50s a group of singers began informal "vocalese" jam sessions at the New York apartment of Dave Lambert (19 June 1917, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, d. 3 October 1966, Westport, Connecticut, USA). At these sessions singers would improvise vocal lines in much the same... Read more

Carmen McRae - 56% match to Manhattan Transfer

8 April 1920, New York City, New York, USA, d. 10 November 1994, Beverly Hills, California, USA. One of the best American jazz singers, McRae was also an accomplished pianist and songwriter. Early in her career she sang with bands led by Benny Carter, Mercer Ellington, Charlie... Read more

Cassandra Wilson - 55% match to Manhattan Transfer

4 December 1955, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. Wilson started piano and guitar lessons at the age of nine. In 1975 she began singing professionally, primarily folk and blues, working in various R&B and Top 20 cover version bands. She emerged as a jazz singer while studying with... Read more

Bobby McFerrin - 54% match to Manhattan Transfer

11 March 1950, New York City, New York, USA. To call Bobby McFerrin a jazz vocalist is hardly to do him justice, for when McFerrin performs - he usually appears solo in lengthy concerts - he uses his entire body as a sound-box, beating noises out of his slender frame while... Read more

Ella Fitzgerald - 54% match to Manhattan Transfer

Ella Jane Fitzgerald, 25 April 1917, Newport News, Virginia, USA, d. 15 June 1996, Beverly Hills, California, USA. Following the disappearance of her father, Fitzgerald was taken to Yonkers, New York by her mother and her new man Joseph da Silva. At school she sang with a glee... Read more

The Swingle Singers - 54% match to Manhattan Transfer

The commercial success of this French choir undermined many ingrained prejudices by pop consumers against serious music, preparing them for Walter Carlos' Switched On Bach, Deep Purple's Concerto For Group And Orchestra and the promotion of the Portsmouth Sinfonia as a pop act.... Read more

Stacey Kent - 52% match to Manhattan Transfer

27 March 1968, South Orange, New Jersey, USA. Starting to sing as a child, Kent never thought of singing as a career, treating it only as a hobby. She took a degree in Comparative Literature, also studying languages. After graduation she visited England, "just to get away", and... Read more