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Cleo Laine. Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth DBE (born Clementine Dinah Hitching; 28 October 1927) is an English singer and actress known for her scat singing. [ 1] She is the widow of jazz composer and musician Sir John Dankworth and the mother of bassist Alec Dankworth and singer Jacqui Dankworth .
Cleo Laine, British singer and actress who mastered a variety of styles, including blues and popular music, but was best known as the ‘Queen of Jazz.’ She was the only singer to receive Grammy Award nominations in jazz, popular, and classical categories.
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Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth, DBE (born 28 October 1927) is a British jazz singer and an actress. She was born in Southall , Middlesex to a white English mother and black Jamaican father. She is famous for her scat singing and for being able to sing very high and very low notes.
Learn about the life and career of Dame Cleo Laine, a jazz singer and actress with a remarkable vocal range and a Grammy award. Discover her collaborations with John Dankworth, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and others.
Cleo Laine is an actress and singer who has been Grammy-nominated in three categories. She was born in 1927 in England and married to John Dankworth, a jazz musician and composer.
- October 28, 1927
Dankworth and Laine's two children are both jazz musicians: Alec Dankworth is a bassist who was also a member of his father's band, and Jacqui Dankworth is a singer. Dankworth was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2006 New Year's Honours List. [20] He and Dame Cleo Laine were one of the few married couples where both partners held titles in their ...
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