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Veteran jazz singer dies aged 97.
[quote]In a long career, Dame Cleo was the first British singer to win a Grammy Award in a jazz category and performed with all the greats – including Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra. She had a four-octave vocal range and the ability to perform everything from Schoenberg to a Spike Milligan hit about a man with too many tonsils.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 26, 2025 4:47 PM |
DAME Cleo Laine
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 25, 2025 5:12 PM |
Susan Dey says the number of deaths this week has gotten completely out of hand.
So, no comment.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 25, 2025 6:42 PM |
Damn! They're dropping like flies this week. Anyway, congrats to them all. Home at last!
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 25, 2025 8:55 PM |
What a voice she had! RIP Dame Cleo.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 26, 2025 2:41 AM |
My favorite performance by her and Johnny Dankworth!
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 26, 2025 2:51 AM |
American here. This is the only thing I know her for:
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 26, 2025 3:56 AM |
A once in a century voice! Thankfully, I saw her once in concert. Sublime
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 26, 2025 4:32 AM |
I saw her in concert three times and she was fabulous. Dame Cleo was well-known to, and appreciated by, American jazz connoisseurs.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 26, 2025 6:11 AM |
I met her at the mirror in the ladies’ washroom at the Savoy during London Jazz Fest in the early 2000s. She complimented my shoes.
I didn’t know who she was. My Brit friend was with me and told me who it was when she left the washroom.
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