Cleo Laine
England
Born: 28 October 1927
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Traditional Pop, Vocal/Standards, Cool, Bop, Jazz-Pop, Contemporary Jazz, Fusion
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With a multi-octave voice similar to Betty Carter's, incredible scatting ability, and ease of transition from a throaty whisper to high-pitched trills, Cleo Laine was born in 1927 in the Southall section of London, the daughter of a Jamaican father and English mother. Her parents sent her to vocal and dance lessons as a teenager, but she was 25 when she first sang professionally, after a successful audition with the big band led by Johnny Dankworth. Both Laine and the band recorded for Esquire, MGM and Pye during the late '50s, and by 1958, she...
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