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Dinah Washington

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Ruth Lee Jones (born August 29, 1924 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; died December 14, 1963 in Detroit, Michigan), better known by her stage name Dinah Washington and also as the Queen of the Blues, was an American Grammy award winning blues, jazz and rhythm and blues singer best known for singing classic torch songs and her hit single What a Diff'rence a Day Makes.

Nancy Wilson

1,623,254 plays (276,266 listeners)

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Nancy Sue Wilson - jazz diva best known for her 60s standards recordings. 2) Nancy Lamoureux Wilson - singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and member of the group Heart. 1) Nancy Sue Wilson (born February 20, 1937, in Chillicothe, OH, United States) is a jazz diva famous for recording American standards in the 60s.

Anita O'Day

1,595,380 plays (243,187 listeners)

Anita O'Day (October 18, 1919 - November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer. O'Day is admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer". Refusing to pander to any female stereotype, O'Day presented herself as a 'hip' jazz musician, wearing a band jacket and skirt as opposed to an evening gown.

Ella Fitzgerald

16,216,510 plays (1,138,557 listeners)

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 in Newport News, VA – June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella (the First Lady of Song), was one of the most influential jazz singers of the 20th Century, the winner of thirteen Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Art presented by President Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by President George H. W. Bush.

Shirley Horn

1,181,709 plays (211,452 listeners)

Horn, who died in 2005, was a jazz singer and pianist whose style's watchword is "intimacy." Her vocal manner is akin to Miles Davis' trumpet style: not technically flashy, but definitively setting the song's mood. Indeed, it was Davis who discovered Horn in 1960 and who became an admirer despite his well-known dislike of vocalists generally.

Etta Jones

240,921 plays (49,474 listeners)

Etta Jones (November 25, 1928 – October 16, 2001) was an American jazz singer whose critical success and relative commercial obscurity (she never had a hit record) earned her a reputation in her lifetime as a "jazz musician's jazz singer".

Lena Horne

1,260,834 plays (274,758 listeners)

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She had recorded and performed extensively, both independently, and with other jazz notables, including Artie Shaw, Teddy Wilson, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnet, Benny Carter, and Billy Eckstine.

Betty Carter

583,082 plays (138,898 listeners)

Betty Carter (1929–1998) was a prominent U.S. jazz singer, renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style. Carter expanded the role of the vocalist in jazz, to a full, improvising member of the band.