biography
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Carter, Betty
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originally Lillie Mae Jones
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1930–98)
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| biography:
| Jazz singer and arranger, born in Flint, Michigan, USA. She was perhaps the major jazz singer of the 1980s and 1990s. In her younger days she sang with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and became known as ‘Betty Bebop’; later she worked with Ray Charles and other blues artists, and continued performing into her sixties. She modelled her singing style more on jazz instrumentalists than on other vocalists, and projected it with an authoritative, prowling stage presence. |
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