Mel Torme
USA
Born: 13 September 1925
Died: 05 June 1999
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90
Genres: Vocal, Jazz, Stage & Screen
Styles: Show Tunes, Cast Recordings, Cast Recordings, Traditional Pop, Vocal/Standards, Swing, Big Band/Swing, Vocal Jazz, Bop
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Mel Tormé was a jazz-oriented pop singer who worked at his craft steadily from the '40s to the '90s, primarily in nightclubs and concert halls. In his 1988 autobiography, It Wasn't All Velvet (its title a reference to his nickname, "The Velvet Fog," bestowed upon him by a disc jockey in the '40s to describe his husky, wide-ranging voice), he mentioned a wish that he had been born ten years earlier, that is, in 1915 rather than 1925. If he had had his wish, Tormé would have been an exact contemporary of Frank Sinatra, and like Sinatra, he migh...
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