Marlene VerPlanck
American jazz and pop vocalist whose body of work centered on big band jazz, the American songbook, and cabaret
American jazz and pop vocalist whose body of work centered on big band jazz, the American songbook, and cabaret
Popular 1900s Irish singer
Afro-Venezuelan singer
American rock and gospel singer, songwriter and guitarist
Bassist and singer in the pioneering all-female rock band Fanny
Filipina-American guitarist, songwriter, producer, educator, and actress
As part of the vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Annie Ross was one of the early practitioners of a singing style known as “vocalese,” which involves the setting of original lyrics to an instrumental jazz solo.
American opera singer and composer
Flory Jagoda escaped the destruction of Sarajevo’s Jewish community and came to the United States after World War II and became an important carrier of a unique musical heritage and also as a composer and arranger of new Sephardic songs.
American actress and singer who first came to prominence in the 1950s as the lead in the original Broadway musicals Plain and Fancy (1955), Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the last.