Helen Ward

Person · Open Library

Born

1962

Works

42

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1916-09-19

Active to

1998-04-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

6,740

Total plays

28,763

Helen Ward (New York City, September 19, 1913 – April 21, 1998, Arlington, Virginia) was an American jazz singer. Her father had taught her piano, and she appeared on radio broadcasts with WOR and WNYC. She also worked as a staff musician at WNYC. Starting in 1934, she sang in Benny Goodman's first band, and became one of the first popular swing "girl singers", as they were then called, and among Goodman's most popular. She and Benny had a brief romance and he came very close to proposing marri

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

   · 2015 · cited 23,773x

2. Global cancer statistics

   · 2011 · cited 23,192x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,790x

4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,975x

5. Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function

   · 1963 · cited 14,271x

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Sports profile

Sport

Cricket

Team

_Retired Cricket

Position

Cricketer

Nationality

United Kingdom

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