Betty Carter
Betty Carter developed a legendary reputation as one of the great mentors for young jazz musicians. Equally legendary was her singing prowess, creating a distinctive style of improvisation that could transcend any song.
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Dorothy Donegan
Blessed with an enormous orchestral capacity at the keyboard, Dorothy Donegan was fluent in several styles of jazz as well as with European classical music.
Cleo Brown
Cleo Brown was the first woman instrumentalist honored with the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship.
Hai-Ting Chinn
Mezzo-soprano opera singer
Martina Arroyo
American opera singer and educator
Sheila Jordan
Sheila Jordan was not only one of the premier singers in jazz, but she was known for her stimulating vocal workshops as well. A superb scat singer, she could just as easily reach the emotional depths of a ballad.
Marlene VerPlanck
American jazz and pop vocalist whose body of work centered on big band jazz, the American songbook, and cabaret
Ruby Murray
Popular 1900s Irish singer
Betsayda Machado
Afro-Venezuelan singer
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American rock and gospel singer, songwriter and guitarist