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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. Learn more about Laine’s life and career.
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.
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). The film also featured her older sister, Sylvia Laine and younger brother, Alexander ...
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 ceremony has only...
Oct 28, 2022 · A special celebration of Britain's 'First Lady of Jazz' Dame Cleo Laine's finest moments on the BBC to coincide with her ninety-fifth birthday. Show more
Cleo Laine, Britain’s internationally famous “Queen of Jazz,” has a career that spans more than four decades. One of the most celebrated singers of our time, she commands a dazzling array of vocal styles and is the only singer ever to receive Grammy nominations in the female Jazz, Popular, and Classical categories. Ms.
Jun 3, 2020 · Cleo Laine (born 1927) is an internationally celebrated singer, who has performed opera and starred in musicals and serious theatre, as well as being Britain’s most celebrated jazz singer from more than five decades. Born of an English mother and Jamaican father in Southall, she sang from early age.
Oct 30, 2022 · First Lady of Jazz - Cleo Laine. Claire Martin talks with two of Britain's best loved vocalists, mother and daughter Cleo Laine and Jacqui Dankworth. From 2016.
May 28, 2018 · Dame Cleo Laine. At the age of 90, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine looks back at her extraordinary career. Show more.
