Born: Portsmouth, VA, 1928
Years Active: 1953-2004
Influenced by: Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday
Genre: R & B
Biography: They called Atlantic Records "the house that Ruth built" during the 1950s, and they weren't referring to the Sultan of Swat. ...
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