Her father, Matthew Garrett, was a jazz trumpeter and teacher at Manassas High School, and through his playing, Denise was exposed to jazz early on.

Feel free to contribute! Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. At the age of sixteen, she was a member of a rock and rhythm'n'blues trio, singing in clubs in Michigan. Artist descriptions on Last.fm are editable by everyone. May 27, 1950) is an American Jazz singer. In 1971, Dee Dee Bridgewater joined the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra as the lead vocalist.

After touring France in 1984 with the musical Sophisticated Ladies, she moved to Paris in 1986. The same year saw her in Lady Day as Billie Holliday, for which role she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award. Dee Dee Bridgewater (b. She is a two-time Grammy Award Winner, Tony Award Winner and Host of NPR's Syndicated Radio show "JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater". Person.

She has received the Award of Arts and Letters in France. Who is Gabriel Durand? At Bassékou’s urging, Bridgewater’s youngest child, son Gabriel Durand, was invited to sit in on guitar. Click on a label to prioritize search results according to that topic: Not long after Bridgewater had arrived in France to do "Lady Day," she met Jean Marie Durand, a jazz-club manager who would become her husband in 1991 and father of their son, Gabriel … Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website.

The next year, she met trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater, and after their marriage, they moved to New York City, where Cecil played in Horace Silver's band. Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. She is a three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award-winning stage actress.For 23 years, she was the host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. Gabriel Durand is the son of singer-actress Dee Dee Bridgewater.. child of Dee Dee Bridgewater; Online dictionaries and encyclopedias with entries for Gabriel Durand. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she returned from the world of musical to jazz.

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At 18, she studied at Michigan State University before she went to the University of Illinois. Dee Dee Bridgewater is the first American to be inducted to the Haut Conseil de la Francophonie. Leave feedback. She performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1990, and four years later, she finally collaborated with Horace Silver, whom she had admired for a long time, and released the album Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver. She is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization. For her role as Glinda the Good Witch she won a Tony Award in 1975 as "best-featured actress", and the musical also won the 1976 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. Born Denise Eileen Garrett in Memphis, Tennessee, she grew up in Flint, Michigan. I improvised rhythms and lyrics. Dee Dee Bridgewater (née Denise Garrett, May 27, 1950) is an American jazz singer. In 1974, her first own album, entitled Afro Blue, appeared, and she also performed on Broadway in the musical The Wiz. She subsequently appeared in several other stage productions.

All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Dee Dee Bridgewater is mother to three children, Tulani Bridgewater (from her marriage to Cecil Bridgewater), China Moses (from her marriage to theater, film and television director Gilbert Moses) and Gabriel Durand (from her current marriage to French concert promoter Jean-Marie Durand). ”Children Go ‘Round” came out of that.” Four n’goni players, two percussionists and Bassékou’s wife, Ami Sacko improvised with Dee Dee. Dee Dee Bridgewater is mother to three children, Tulani Bridgewater (from her marriage to Cecil Bridgewater), China Moses (from her marriage to theater, film and television director Gilbert Moses) and Gabriel Durand (from her current marriage to French concert promoter Jean-Marie Durand).

She is a United Nations Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).