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Dorothy Jacqueline Keely (March 9, 1928 [1] [note 1] [2] – December 16, 2017), professionally known as Keely Smith, was an American jazz and popular music singer, who performed and recorded extensively in the 1950s with then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo artist. [3]
Dec 18, 2017 · Keely Smith, a popular jazz vocalist and a fixture in the 1950s world of Las Vegas and a musical partner to her husband, Louis Prima, has died. She was 89. Conjure up an image of Prima's lounge ...
Dec 22, 2017 · Keely Smith's New York Times obituary credited them with having foreshadowed the style of Sonny & Cher in the 1960s. Keely Smith was born in Virginia in 1928. By age 11, she was singing on a local ...
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Dec 19, 2017 · The classic balladeer was known for her GRAMMY-winning duet with Louis Prima, "That Old Black Magic". Iconic pop/jazz vocalist Keely Smith died in Palm Springs, Calif., on Dec. 16. The Los Angeles Times reports the cause of death was apparent heart failure. She was 89.
Dec 18, 2017 · Keely Smith, a smoky-voiced singer with a pageboy bob who emerged in the early 1950s as the deadpan half of a Grammy Award-winning lounge act with Louis Prima, the ebullient, frenzied bandleader ...
Keely Smith. Soundtrack: Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Keely Smith was born March 9, 1928 in Norfolk, VA. After her parents divorced and her mother remarried Jesse Smith when she was nine years old, she changed her name to Keely Smith after she joined Louis Prima and his band. Her family had a tough time and her three brothers and her took in laundry to make ends meet. In 1947,...
- March 9, 1928
- December 16, 2017
Dec 18, 2017 · Keely Smith, a smoky-voiced balladeer who became a nightclub sensation in the 1950s with her then-husband, the comically disruptive entertainer Louis Prima, and who gradually emerged from his ...
