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Oct 11, 1998 · Jazz singer, composer, arranger nonpareil -- Betty Carter, who died on Sept. 26 at the age of 69, was all these things. But along with her own music, she leaves another significant legacy with the ...
Jan 29, 2019 · Betty Carter, the adroit and unsurpassable jazz singer, was 61 when she took the stage at Aaron Davis Hall in New York for The Music Never Stops on March 29, 1992.Presented by Jazz at Lincoln ...
May 23, 2018 · The woman who came to be known to the world as Betty Carter was born Lillie Mae Jones on May 16, 1930, in the industrial city of Flint, Michigan. (Some sources say she was born in 1929, but Carter's teenage habit of lying about her age to get into local nightclubs indicates the later date is probably correct).
Betty Carter was born on May 16th, 1930 in Flint, Michigan and raised in a strict Baptist household. She grew up in and among a growing jazz community and studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory of Music until she was 15, then turned to singing.
May 25, 2020 · Betty Carter was born Lillie Mae Jones in Flint, Michigan, on May 16, 1930. At a young age, she began the study of piano at the Detroit Conservatory of Music, and by the time she was a teenager she was slready sitting in with Charlie Parker and other bop musicians when they performed in Detroit. After winning a local amateur contest, she turned ...
Sep 27, 1998 · Grammy-winning singer Betty Carter, known as the godmother of jazz for nurturing young musical talent, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer at her Brooklyn home. She was 69. Carter was best known to ...
Apr 2, 2019 · Betty Carter Concert Recording Captures The Singer At The Top Of Her Game Carter had a late-career renaissance when she performed for New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center in 1992. Critic Kevin ...
