Cleo Brown
Cleo Brown was the first woman instrumentalist honored with the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship.
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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
Jean Millington
Bassist and singer in the pioneering all-female rock band Fanny
June Millington
Filipina-American guitarist, songwriter, producer, educator, and actress