Anita O’Day photo Photo: David Redfern/Redferns Anita Belle Colton (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006), known professionally as Anita O’Day, was an American jazz singer and self proclaimed “song stylist” widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances that shattered the traditional image of the “girl singer”….
Category: Women Music March 2021
Women Music March 2021 – Day 16 – Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. Apple is an eleven-time Grammy Award nominee and one-time winner whose albums have reached the top fifteen on the U.S. chart in four consecutive decades. The youngest daughter of actor Brandon Maggart, Apple was born in New York City but was raised…
Women Music March 2021 — Day 15 — Etta James
Etta James Jamesetta Hawkins (January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012), known professionally as Etta James, was an American singer who performed in various genres, including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz and gospel. In 1952, at the age of 14, James formed a girl doo-wop trio called the Creolettes, who were renamed the…
Women Music March 2021 – Day 14 – Lorde
Lorde Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor (born November 7, 1996), known professionally as Lorde (pronounced “lord”), is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. Taking inspiration from aristocracy for her stage name, she is known for employing unconventional musical styles and introspective songwriting. Lorde’s music is primarily electropop and contains elements of subgenres such as dream pop and indie-electro….
Women Music March 2021 – Day 13 – Teena Marie
Teena Marie showed her musicianship, playing guitar as well as singing, at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati last July 30. JOSEPH FUQUA II / THE ENQUIRER 2010 Mary Christine Brockert (March 5, 1956 – December 26, 2010), known professionally as Teena Marie, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, arranger, and producer. She was known by…
Women Music March 2021 – Day 12 – Sheila Chandra
Sheila Chandra Sheila Chandra (born 14 March 1965) is a retired English pop singer of Indian descent. As a teenager she formed the band Monsoon with Steve Coe (who became the band’s producer) and bassist Martin Smith. Monsoon created a fusion of Western and Indian pop styles. The band recorded its only album, Third Eye,…
Women Music March 2021 – Day 11 – Solange
Solange Solange Piaget Knowles (born June 24, 1986) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, performance artist, and actress. Expressing an interest in music from an early age, Knowles had several temporary stints as a backup dancer for Destiny’s Child, which featured her elder sister, Beyoncé Knowles, among its members, before signing with her father…
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