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Betty Carter (May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was a prominent American jazz singer who was 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. Although her voice was not as admired by the public as such vocalists as Sarah Vaughan or Ella Fitzgerald, many consider her to have exercised mastery of the human voice previously unheard in jazz. Carmen McRae once claimed that “there’s really only one jazz singer - only one: Betty Carter.”[1]
Carter was born Lillie Mae Jones in Flint, Michigan and grew up in Detroit, where her father led a church choir. She studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory. She won a talent contest and became a regular on the local club circuit, singing and playing piano. When she was sixteen, she sang with Charlie Parker. She later performed with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis and toured with Lionel Hampton, (from whom she received the nickname “Betty Bebop”) where she perfected her scat singing of bebop.
Her career was eclipsed somewhat during the 1960s and 1970s, though a series of duets with Ray Charles in 1961, including the R&B-chart-topping “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” brought her ...
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Top 10 Betty Carter Songs
Open The Door
Naima's Love Song (DJ Spinna Remix)
Ego (Live)
Naima's Love Song
Let's Fall In Love
Social Call
I Could Write A Book
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
There Is No Greater Love
Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love
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Top 10 Betty Carter Albums
Inside Betty Carter
Finally
It's Not About The Melody
Betty Carter's Finest Hour
I Can't Help It
The Audience With Betty Carter
Look What I Got!
'Round Midnight
Feed the Fire
I'm Yours, You're Mine
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