Dee Dee Bridgewater

Known for ActingBorn 1950-05-27 (age 76)Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Dee Dee Bridgewater (born 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 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. She also performed 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. She performed again at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 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.Read more

Movies & web series

It's Not About Love

Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald

Billie Holiday: A Sensation

Soundbreaking

Le Grand Échiquier

La Boîte à musique

Night Partners

Highlander: The Series

Fort Boyard

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Champs-Elysées

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

The Brother from Another Planet

Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure

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

Great Performances

Everybody Rides the Carousel

Sacrée soirée

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh

The Mike Douglas Show

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Jazz Open Stuttgart

Téléthon

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Jazz in Marciac

L'Invité

Vivement dimanche

Victoires de la musique

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas with Vanessa Williams

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

Quincy Jones & Friends - Live at Jazz Open Stuttgart

Jazz at the White House

Dee Dee Bridgewater "Motherland"

Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen

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