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Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth DBE (born Clementine Dinah Hitching; 28 October 1927) is an English singer and actress known for her scat singing. [1] She is the widow of jazz composer and musician Sir John Dankworth and the mother of bassist Alec Dankworth and singer Jacqui Dankworth.
Cleo Laine, British singer and actress who mastered a variety of styles, including blues and popular music, but was best known as the ‘Queen of Jazz.’ She was the only singer to receive Grammy Award nominations in jazz, popular, and classical categories.
Cleo Laine. Actress: The Third Alibi. As a child, Cleo Laine was inspired by cinema and by musicals, by Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland. She first performed in public at the age of twelve, playing a street urchin in the motion picture The Thief of Bagdad (1940).
Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth, DBE (born 28 October 1927) is a British jazz singer and an actress. She was born in Southall, Middlesex to a white English mother and black Jamaican father. She is famous for her scat singing and for being able to sing very high and very low notes.
Dame Cleo Laine is a jazz singer and an actress, noted for her scat singing and vocal range. Though her natural range is that of a contral to she is able to produce a "G above high C" giving her an overall compass of well over three octaves.
Cleo Laine. The wife of Johnny Dankworth, she is a brilliantly talented English jazz singer with incredible vocal range. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1950s - 2020s. Born. October 28, 1927 in Southall, Middlesex, England. Genre.
Apr 29, 2018 · Dame Cleo Laine is to receive a lifetime achievement award from Jazz FM. As she was born in 1927, the jazz station might be accused of taking its time. But its annual award...
