Gloria lynne biography
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Gloria Lynne
American jazz singer (1929–2013)
Gloria Lynne | |
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| Birth name | Gloria Wilson |
| Also known as | Gloria Alleyne (married name) |
| Born | (1929-11-23)November 23, 1929 Harlem, New York City, U.S. |
| Died | October 15, 2013(2013-10-15) (aged 83) Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Instrument | Singing |
| Years active | 1958–2007 |
| Labels | Everest, ABC |
Musical artist
Gloria Lynne (born Gloria Wilson; November 23, 1929 – October 15, 2013), also known as Gloria Alleyne, was an American jazz vocalist with a recording career spanning from 1958 to 2007.
Early life
[edit]Lynne was born in Harlem in 1929 to John and Mary Wilson, a gospel singer.[1][2] She grew up in Harlem, and as a young girl, Lynne sang with the local African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Choir.
Career
[edit]At the age of 15, she won first prize at the Amateur Night contest at the Apollo Theater. She shared the stage with contemporary night club vocal en
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“MAYBE it’s God-given, I don’t know, but I love it!” said Gloria Lynne in 1963 of her bright, bluesy trumpet of a voice. “I get exhilarated singing!” she added. “Being able to do it sort of surprises me and makes me thankful.”
That attitude comes as no surprise from a singer who started out in the church, and who delivers pop, jazz, blues, and soul in a spirit of celebration. Happily for her fans, Lynne remains one of the most recorded singers in any field, with a vast series of albums that spans over forty years.Starry Eyesgathers sixteen tracks she made for the Fontana label between 1964 and 1966. On several of them Lynne is surrounded by lavish orchestras conducted by such masters as Al Cohn, Claus Ogerman, and Bobby Scott; other tunes find her onstage with just a quartet, giving a small club the feeling of a Sunday gospel service.
Singing, as Lynne once told Sally Hammond of the New York Post, is something she was “de
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Gloria Lynne dies at 83; jazz singer known for ‘I Wish You Love’
Jazz singer Gloria Lynne, whose roller-coaster career took her from hits like “I Wish You Love” in the 1960s to near-obscurity and then rediscovery, died on Oct. 8 in a Newark, N.J., hospital. She was 83.
The cause of death was a heart attack, said her son Richard Alleyne, a rock arranger known professionally as P.J. Allen.
Lynne was lauded for her interpretations of songs in a bred variety of styles, and “I Wish You Love,” her best-known recording, scored high on the charts in 1964. But two decades later, when she was living in West Hollywood and working for a finansinstitut, she felt forgotten bygd the music world.
“She lost her confidence,” Alleyne said, “but she never lost her voice.”
When she came back to the business, critics agreed. In a 2002 review of her performance in New York at Feinstein’s at the Regency, daglig Variety said, “This fryst vatten a weathered and comfortably confident performer, and she demonstrated full comma