Betty Carter
Sign in to saveAlso known as Lillie Mae Jones, Lorraine Carter
American jazz singer, recording artist, songwriter (1929–1998)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1944
- Works
- 16
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1929-05-16
- Active to
- 1998-09-26
2008 universal fire victimbebophard bopjazzpost-bopvocal jazz
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- 341,835
- Total plays
- 1,651,108
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Betty Carter (1929–1998) was a prominent U.S. jazz singer, 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 o
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Betty
- Family name
- Carter
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Flint
- Place of death
- Brooklyn
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- NEA Jazz Masters
- Field of work
- singing
- Genre
- post-bop
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Columbia Records
- Official website
- bettycarter.org
- Image
- CarterBetty19861025.jpg
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- birth name
- Lillie Mae Jones
- Commons category
- Betty Carter
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- date of birth
- 1929-05-16
- date of death
- 1998-09-26
- manner of death
- natural causes
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- start of work period
- 1948-00-00
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