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Sugar Pie DeSanto (born Peylia Marsema Balinton, October 16, 1935) is an American R&B singer and dancer, whose career in music flourished in the 1950s and 1960s.
May 3, 2024 · Peylia Marsema Balinton — better known as blues singer Sugar Pie DeSanto — talks to her longtime manager Jim Moore. At 86 years old, she is about to be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
Sep 12, 2023 · Sugar Pie DeSanto, the 87-Year-Old Firecracker of R&B, Plots Her Comeback. Sugar Pie DeSanto poses for a portrait with her record, ‘Down in the Basement’ outside her home in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. DeSanto, 87, released her latest album ‘Sugar’s Suite’ in 2018. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)
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Jasman Records Inc. is an Oakland, California, label proudly promoting Sugar Pie DeSanto, an award-winning artist providing R&B and soul music everyone can enjoy. Born Umpeylia Marsema Balinton of Filipino and African-American parentage, she was dubbed Little Miss Sugar Pie by the legendary Johnny Otis. Read on HERE.
Sugar Pie DeSanto has been called a great R&B singer. Her CDs, “Sugar Is Salty” (1993), “Classic Sugar Pie” (1997), and “A Slice of Pie” (1999), are on the Jasman Records label. Yet, Ms. DeSanto, born in Brooklyn, is far more than a great blues singer—, she’s also a first-class soul singer, a commanding jazz stylist, an ...
Jul 29, 2010 · Critic Ed Ward tells the story of one of the most unusual female soul singers to come out of the early 1960s. Sugar Pie DeSanto, who grew up with Etta James, rose to national prominence when...
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Sugar Pie DeSanto. Sugar Pie DeSanto packed astonishing power and plenty of personality into a tiny frame. Her spunk and vigor impressed bandleader and producer Johnny Otis enough to sign her to her first recording session in 1955 after witnessing her performance at a San Francisco talent show.
