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Also known as Death Letter

American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi

Person · Open Library

Works
8

Top works

  • 8 Reid Street :
  • American Poet! Poems
  • American Poet! Poems Volume 2
  • American Poet! Poems Volume 3
  • American poet!

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Film & TV

Acting · Jackson, Mississippi, USA

Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz singer, songwriter, musician, actress and producer. A vocalist blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack who has expanded the playing field by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work.

Known for

  • Billie Holiday: A Sensation — Self2015
  • Treme2010
  • Cassandra Wilson In Concert Soft Winds2004
  • The Soul of a Man — Self2003
  • The Blues — Self2003
  • Strange Fruit — Self2002
  • The Score — Special Appearance2001
  • Jazz Seen — Self2001
  • An All-Star Tribute to Joni Mitchell — Self2000
  • David Sanborn & Friends - The Super Session II1999

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1955
contemporary jazzjazzjazz and bluesvocal jazz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
467,492
Total plays
4,252,301

Tags

jazzfemale vocalistsbluesvocal jazzjazz vocal

Cassandra Wilson (born 4th December 1955) is a U.S. jazz vocalist and two-time Grammy Award winner from Jackson, Mississippi. Two of her albums, Blue Skies (1988) and New Moon Daughter (1996), have topped the US jazz charts, and the latter also won her a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance in 1997. More recently, Wilson's album Loverly (2008) also won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album at the 51st Grammy Awards in 2009. Wilson's repertoire includes both jazz and blues standards and renditi

via Last.fm · Cassandra Wilson