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Cleo Laine Not a Jazz Singer Despite Fame and Honors
Cleo Laine who died at 97 sparked headlines praising her as a great jazz singer, though she insisted she was a singer of songs not a jazz vocalist. Born Clementina Campbell in London in 1927, she rose with John Dankworth, won a 1986 Grammy, and became Dame. She spoke of acting, theater, and a lifelong dedication to stage work, equity with her husband, and arts work at The Stables in Wavendon.
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Cleo Laine
San Diego
Laine
San Diego Union
Ella Fitzgerald
Porgy and
Bess
Charles Ives
Arnold
John Dankworth
America
John
London
Broadway
Nomi
John Williams
Duke Ellington
Royal Festival Hall
the Stables
Wavendon
England
the Zombies
Rod Argent
Colin Blunstone
Argent
George Varga
California Theater
Lotte Lenya
Kurt Weil
Ray Charles
James Galway
Dudley Moore
Houston
Houston Ballet
Clementina Dinah Campbell
Southall
Middlesex
Fred Astaire
Louie Armstrong
Stuart
San Francisco
Dankworth
Royal Court Theater
Downbeat
Edinburg
Saddler’s Wells Opera Theater
Pat Benatar
Wavendon All-music Project
WAP
Andre Previn
Steven Sondheim