Cleo Laine death: Singer regarded as Britain’s greatest jazz voice, dies at 97

Cleo Line, who was blurred by Constalto, died one of the most distinctive voices in jazz, which many have considered the greatest contribution to Britain to ideal American music. It was 97.

On Friday, the stables, a charitable institution and a place with her late musician musician Jazn Dancrath, said on Friday that it was a “great sadness” by the news that “one of her founders and the head of life, and Demer Cleo Lin died.”

Monica Ferguson, technical director of the stables, said Lynn would miss to a large extent, but her unique talent will always be remembered.

The LAINE march extended to the Atlantic species and tubes: The songs of Kurt Weill, Arnold Schoenberg and Robert Schumann sang; I worked on the stage and in the movie, and even played God in the production of “Noye’s Fludde”.

82 years old, Clio Lynn, where he was working live with the London project in the Royal Festival Hall, London on November 21, 2009 during the London Jazz Festival 2009.

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The life and art of Line was closely related to the Dankur Group leader, who gave her a job and her theatrical name in 1951, and she married seven years later. Both of them were still performing after his eighty birthdays. Dankworth died in 2010 at 82.

In 1997, Lynn became the first British jazz artist who became the lady, equivalent to the knight.

“It is British jazz that should have received the award to serve me,” she said when it was announced. “He gave me a wonderful life, a successful profession and an opportunity to travel around the world to do what I like to do.”

Lin Clementina Dina Campbell was born in 1927. Her father, Alexander Campbell, was Jamaican, loved the opera and got money during the depression as a singer in the streets. Despite difficult times, her British mother, Minnie, confirmed that her daughter had voice lessons, sound and dance.

She started performance on local occasions at the age of 3, and at the age of twelve, she got an additional role in “The Thief Of Bagdad”. She left the school at the age of fourteen, she went to work as a hairdresser and faced repeated rejection in her efforts to get a job as a singer.

A decade after a decade, in 1951, she tried to go out for Johnny Dancur, seven, and succeeded. Clementina Campbell has been sentenced for a long time for pavilion, so Cleo Lin became.

Lynn once said: “John said that when he heard me, I did not seem like anyone else who was singing at that time.” “I think the reason I didn’t get the other jobs is that they were looking for a singer who looks like someone else.”

LAINE had a great range, from Tenor to Contralto, often described the sound as “Smoky”.

Recrew Dancrath, in an interview with The Irish Independent, LAINE test.

“They were all sitting there with rocky faces, so I asked the Scottish trumpet player Jimmy Divshar, who was looking for very sparkle and was the most difficult walnut, whether he believed to have something.” something? He said, “I got everything!”

It offered 6 pounds a week, and Lynn – and obtained – 7 pounds.

“They used to call me a” dam “, although I don’t think I was a hero. It was just that I came from sticks, I didn’t know how to collect things together as well as other singers a day.” “In any case, I had no money, because they did not pay me enough.”

The confession quickly came. The runner -up was in the “Girl Sinody” category of Melody Maker in 1952, and the list was topped in 1956 and 1957.

She got married to Dancrath – and left his band – in 1958, a year after her divorce from her first husband, George Langridge. When the Dancrath group flourished, Lynn started to feel upset.

“I thought, no, I will not sit on the band and be a song singer from time to time when he imagined it. So I decided at the time that I would not stay with the band and I would go and try to do something alone,” she said in the BBC documentary.

When I said I would leave, he said: “Do you marry me? “This was a good trick, right, huh?”

They got married on March 18, 1958. Ibn Alec was born in 1960, followed by Jacqueline’s daughter in 1963.

Despite her happy marriage, Lynn has provided an independent profession from Dankworth.

“When anyone begins to mark Ali, I say,” Oh, no, go and do something different, “Lynn told Associated Press in 1985.

Her career on the stage began in 1958 when she was invited to join the actors in the Western Indian play, “Flessh to a Tiger”, in the Royal Royal Theater, and she was surprised to find herself in the leadership role. She won the Moscow Theater Award for her performance.

“Research” followed in 1959, the “seven deadly sins” in 1961, “Women Trojan” in 1966 and “Haida Gapler” in 1970.

Julie’s role in “Show Sorin” in Jerome Kern in 1971 supplied Lin with a cross “Bell”.

Lynn began to win a follow -up in the United States in 1972 with a concert in the Alice Tall Hall in New York. This was not good, but the New York Times gave her a glowing review.

The following year, she and Dankworth drew a fans selling at Carnegie Hall, as she launched a series of popular manifestations. “Cleo At Carnegie” won the Grammy Award in 1986, in the same year, Tony candidate for “MyS spent of Edwin Draood” was.

She found references to diversity in 2002 her strong voice: “Dark and creamy sound, great extent and control from the bottom to the sweet and sweet soprano. Its ideal stadium and its formulation is always framed by musical imagination and good taste.”

Lynn’s performance may be the most difficult ever on February 6, 2010, in a concert celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the location of the concerts that she and Dankworth founded in their home, where Laine and her mother performed.

“I am very sorry that Sir John cannot be here today,” Lin told the crowd at the end of the show. “But earlier on my husband died in the hospital.”

Lynn said in an interview with Boston Globe in 2003 that the secret of her longevity was “I was never a Belter.”

“There has always been a protective side inside me, and it was a permanent internal sound he said:” Don’t do it – it’s not good for you and your voice. “

Lynn survived by her son and daughter.

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The Associated Press writer Jill Luis contributed. AP Robert Bar, the main author of the mill, died in 2018.

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