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Anita O'day
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Anita O'day
Examines the life, career, style, collaborations and major songs of this American jazz singer.
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages) |
14 sources |
1999
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"Anita O'Day is one of the most important and influential of all jazz singers. Her career began with the big bands of Gene Krupa and Stan Kenton. But she flourished as a solo performer when the bands went out of style. Despite her popularity, especially as an exponent of the Cool style of the late 1950s and early 1960s, O'Day suffered from emotional problems, became addicted to heroin, and nearly died. Following her recovery, however, she rebuilt her career. Though her voice had coarsened slightly, her style had always depended less on the beauty of her voice than on her musicianship. O'Day's immense improvisatory skills, her precise timing, her wonderful sense of rhythm, and her great wit as a performer had not been diminished and she flourished again.O'Day was born Anita Belle Colson on October 18, 1919 in ..."
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