Biography
Shirley Enid Avery, 1 September 1934, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 2 May 2000, Englewood, New Jersey, USA. Thornton began her singing career in 1956 with an engagement at Cleveland’s Ebony Club before going on tour and playing and recording in Chicago. Her debut recording session in the winter of 1960/1 found her teamed with several notable jazz musicians including Clark Terry, Britt Woodman, Earle Warren, Seldon Powell, Wynton Kelly, Freddie Green, Sam Jones, Jimmy Cobb, and Sam Herman. She had a 1963 hit with ‘Somewhere In The Night’, the theme from a popular television show, The Naked City. Her popularity opened doors for her but an opportunity to tour Australia as an accompanying artist to Frank Sinatra was mishandled and lost. Her early success was still further and more seriously damaged when she started to lose an ongoing struggle with alcohol addiction. Apart from damaging her career, this also blighted her personal life and she went through...
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