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Dee Dee Bridgewater‌

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Female

Birthday

calendar1950-05-27

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Dee Dee Bridgewater

Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1950-05-27

Popularity

star11.4

Biography

Dee Dee Bridgewater (née Denise Garrett, May 27, 1950) is an American jazz singer and actress. 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. She is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization. Born Denise Eileen Garrett in Memphis, Tennessee, she was raised Catholic in Flint, Michigan. Her father, Matthew Garrett, was a jazz trumpeter and teacher at Manassas High School, and through his playing, she was exposed to jazz early on. At the age of sixteen, she was a member of a Rock and R&B trio, singing in clubs in Michigan. At 18, she studied at Michigan State University before she went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With the school's jazz band, she toured the Soviet Union in 1969. 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. In the early 1970s, Bridgewater joined the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra as lead vocalist. This marked the beginning of her jazz career, and she performed with many of the great jazz musicians of the time, such as Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Max Roach, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Wayne Garfield, and others. She performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1973. In 1974, her first solo album, entitled Afro Blue, appeared, and she performed on Broadway in the musical The Wiz. 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. She subsequently appeared in several other stage productions. 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 Holiday, for which role she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award, as well as recording the song "Precious Thing" with Ray Charles, featured on her album Victim of Love. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she returned from the world of Pop and Contemporary R&B to Jazz. She performed at the Sanremo Music Festival in Italy and the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1990, and four years later, she finally collaborated with Horace Silver, whom she had long admired, and released the album Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver. Performed also at the San Francisco Jazz Festival (1996). Her 1997 tribute album Dear Ella won her the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, and the 1998 album Live at Yoshi's was also worth a Grammy nomination. Performed again at the Monterey Jazz Festival (1998). She has also explored on This Is New (2002) the songs of Kurt Weill, and, on her next album J'ai deux amours (2005), the French Classics. ... Source: Article "Dee Dee Bridgewater" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movie Credits

Billie Holiday: A Sensation

Billie Holiday: A Sensation‌
star8.0
calendar 2015

Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure

Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure‌
star6.2
calendar 2007

Dee Dee Bridgewater "Motherland"

Dee Dee Bridgewater "Motherland"‌
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calendar 2007

Dee Dee Bridgewater Sings Kurt Weill Live At North Sea Jazz Festival

Dee Dee Bridgewater  Sings Kurt Weill Live At North Sea Jazz Festival‌
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calendar 2004

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Jazz Open Stuttgart

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Jazz Open Stuttgart‌
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calendar 2013

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes‌
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calendar 2023

Everybody Rides the Carousel

Everybody Rides the Carousel‌
star5.8
calendar 1975

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Jazz in Marciac

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Jazz in Marciac‌
star4.5
calendar 2014

Jazz at the White House

Jazz at the White House‌
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calendar 2016

Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen

Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen‌
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calendar 2002

Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald

Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald‌
star8.0
calendar 2017

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Live in Antibes & Juan-Les-Pins

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Live in Antibes & Juan-Les-Pins‌
star5.8
calendar 2010

It's Not About Love

It's Not About Love‌
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calendar 1998

Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe‌
star0.0
calendar 2006

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh‌
star5.5
calendar 1979

The Brother from Another Planet

The Brother from Another Planet‌
star6.6
calendar 1984

Night Partners

Night Partners‌
star7.0
calendar 1983

Jazz Open Stuttgart 2017 - Festival of World Stars and Child Prodigies

Jazz Open Stuttgart 2017 - Festival of World Stars and Child Prodigies‌
star0.0
calendar 2017

Quincy Jones & Friends - Live at Jazz Open Stuttgart

Quincy Jones & Friends - Live at Jazz Open Stuttgart‌
star0.0
calendar 2017

Tv Credits

Fort Boyard

Fort Boyard‌
star7.4
calendar 1990

Victoires de la musique

Victoires de la musique‌
star2.0
calendar 1985

La Boîte à musique

La Boîte à musique‌
star7.5
calendar 2006

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson‌
star7.4
calendar 1962

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show‌
star4.8
calendar 1961

Le Grand Échiquier

Le Grand Échiquier‌
star8.0
calendar 1972

Highlander: The Series

Highlander: The Series‌
star7.4
calendar 1992

Champs-Elysées

Champs-Elysées‌
star6.2
calendar 1982

Le monde est à vous

Le monde est à vous‌
star0.0
calendar 1987

Téléthon

Téléthon‌
star5.0
calendar 1987

Vivement dimanche

Vivement dimanche‌
star3.2
calendar 1998

Great Performances

Great Performances‌
star4.9
calendar 1971

L'Invité

L'Invité‌
star4.5
calendar 2002

Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas with Vanessa Williams

Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas with Vanessa Williams‌
star0.0
calendar 2020