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Dee Dee Bridgewater is tagged as: jazz, female vocalists, jazz vocal, vocal jazz, modern jazz

Dee Dee Bridgewater (b. May 27, 1950) is an American Jazz singer. She is a two-time Grammy Award Winner, Tony Award Winner and Host of NPR’s Syndicated Radio show “JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater”. She is a United Nations Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Born Denise Eileen Garrett in Memphis, Tennessee, she grew up in Flint, Michigan. Her father, Matthew Garrett, was a jazz trumpeter and teacher at Manassas High School, and through his playing, Denise was exposed to jazz early on. At the age of sixteen, she was a member of a rock and rhythm’n’blues trio, singing in clubs in Michigan. At 18, she studied at the Michigan State University before she went to the University of Illinois. With their jazz band, she toured the Soviet Union in 1969. The next year, she met trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater, and after their marriage, they moved to New York City, where Cecil played in Horace Silver’s band.
In 1971, Dee Dee Bridgewater joined the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis orchestra as the lead vocalist. The next years marked the beginning of her jazz career, and she performed with many of the great jazz musicians of the time, such as Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Max Roach, and others. In 1974, her first own album, ent...
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Top 10 Dee Dee Bridgewater Songs
Afro Blue
Dee Dee
Meanwhile
Red Earth (Massane Cisse)
Angel Eyes
Cotton Tail
Compared to What
Bad Spirits (Bani)
Four Women
Oh My Love (Djarabi)
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Red Earth
Dear Ella
Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee
Love And Peace: A Tribute To Horace Silver
J'ai Deux Amours
Keeping Tradition
This is New
Live At Yoshi's
Just Family
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