Ms. BLACKBURN: She had singing on her mind, said Pony Kay, and she sang like it hurt her to sing, like it did her good.
Raised mainly by friends and relatives, she began singing when her grandparents took her to a Baptist Church, where she joined the choir as a soloist.
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She started singing professionally with Lionel Hampton's orchestra at the age of 18, and was to change her name to Betty.
It was during her time there that she began singing in church choirs and taking piano lessons, even trying out the alto saxophone.
Ashlee Simpson was outed during a 2004 Saturday Night Live performance when her backing track played a song different from the one she was singing.
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She began singing lessons at the age of 22, working her way up to conservatory level, then, a decade later, decided to dedicate her life to her passion for opera singing.
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What stuck me about this entire segment is that I think Jimmy and Diddy's "We don't believe what you're singing" critique of Jessica during her mentoring session was deliberately orchestrated so that we the audience would be conditioned into believing what she was singing.
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She wasn't somebody who could stand up and, say, like a Paul Robeson, make a whole sort of statement, but she could sing this song, and apparently, according to letters from--that I read of William Dufty, the ghostwriting journalist who wrote "The Lady Sings the Blues, " the FBI and other peoples actually said if she stopped singing this song they would give her an easier ride.
She wouldn't say what she'll be singing, though she did say it was "not easy" to choose a few songs from her many hits.
She's singing in a very powerful way, but she doesn't really ever explode.
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There's no doubt reporters will hound her regarding whether she will be singing live or not.
Born Clara Ann Fowler into a poor family in 1928, she was discovered singing on local radio.
After World War II she concentrated on singing, landing lead parts in Tosca and Ariadne auf Naxos with the New York City Opera.
She had come to the attention of the Met's international scouts in Milan, where she has been singing and studying at La Scala.
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After she was heard singing on a beach at Ullapool, Mumfords' Ben Lovett went on to record and produce her track My Friend Fire.
However, she insisted she would be singing live for her half-time Superbowl performance on Sunday - one of the most-watched TV events in the United States.
Later, in San Francisco, she formed a singing group called the Creolettes, who were discovered by bandleader Johnny Otis, who coincidentally also died this week.
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At various times she has heard choirs singing in Latin from the bedroom.
The song saw Caravel criss-cross London so she could film herself singing the words that corresponded with the street names.
Tal Fallow offers up a lovely, somewhat baroque, guitar treatment, while Ernestine Anderson slows everything down so that, even with an orchestra behind her, she comes across as singing directly to you and I.
Unlike what was to come within a year, she wasn't singing to her own fans, caught up in the giddy confidence that they'd follow her on whatever flights of fancy she felt like taking in any given song.
But Ms. Sutton, a confessed devotee of Sinatra and Tony Bennett, is closer to that realm of quality saloon singing than she is to the Sarah Vaughans and Ella Fitzgeralds of this world, whose liberties with melody and rhythm seemed unforced, like a first language...
Not having one of her own, she plays in the back of a music store so they go there and he teaches her a song he's just written, first playing the chords for her, then singing as she reads along with the lyrics that he's placed on the piano.
She's still thinking about a possible singing career, despite the fact that she had to cancel an audition for Boston's Berklee College of Music a few days after she was diagnosed.
It included her singing a song she had first learnt when she was 16.
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"We try to encourage our contestants to do something - like ballroom dancing or singing, " she added.
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