Carmen McRae

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Film & TV

Acting · New City, New York, USA

Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1920 – November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer. She is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century and is remembered for her behind-the-beat phrasing and ironic interpretation of lyrics.

Known for

• Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2 — Self (archive footage)2006
• Umbria Jazz Story — herself1993
• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling — Grandmother1986
• The Long Night of Lady Day1984
• Roots: The Next Generations — Lila1979
• The Pearl Bailey Show — Self1971
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest1968
• Hotel — Christine1967
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self1962
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self1961

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1920

Active to

1994

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

435,891

Total plays

2,948,636

Carmen Mercedes McRae (1920-1994) was a U.S. jazz singer, songwriter, and pianist. McRae was born in Harlem, New York, on the 8th April 1920, and studied piano as a child. As a teenager she came to the attention of Teddy Wilson and his wife, the composer Irene Kitchings Wilson. Through their influence, one of McRae’s early songs, "Dream of Life", was recorded by Wilson’s longtime collaborator Billie Holiday. By the late 1940s she was well known among the modern jazz musicians who gathered at M

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Optical Coherence Tomography

   · 1991 · cited 11,104x

2. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

   · 2018 · cited 9,660x

3. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,261x

4. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2017 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association

   · 2017 · cited 7,093x

5. SCENIC: single-cell regulatory network inference and clustering

   · 2017 · cited 6,221x

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