Blossom Dearie
- MatchBlossom Dearie
- 100%Anita O'Day
- 76%Sarah Vaughan
- 69%Shirley Horn
- 63%Dinah Washington
- 63%Ella Fitzgerald
- 59%Nancy Wilson
- 59%Nancy Wilson
- 58%Carmen McRae
- 58%Etta Jones
- 57%Billie Holiday
Biography
28 April 1928, East Durham, New York, USA. A singer, pianist and songwriter, with a wispy, little-girlish voice, Dearie is regarded as one of the great supper club singers. Her father was of Scottish and Irish descent; her mother emigrated from Oslo, Norway. Dearie is said to have been given her unusual first name after a neighbour brought peach blossoms to her house on the day she was born. She began taking piano lessons when she was five, and studied classical music until she was... Read more