| Queen is the landmark biography of the brief, intensely lived life and soulful music of the great Dinah Washington.This biography is the first to draw on extensive interviews with family members and newly discovered documents.It is a revelation of Dinah's work and her life.Windows Media
CD cover of 'Queen: The Music of Dinah Washington.Courtesy of Verve RecordsCD Cover of 'Queen: The Music of Dinah Washington."Queen of the Jukeboxes," left her turbulent life behind at the tender age of 39.Now, as fans mark what would have been Washington's 80th birthday, music historian Nadine Cohodas fills NPR's Liane Hansen in on some of the story.Cohodas has written Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington.Born in Tuscaloosa, Ala.Ruth Lee Jones moved with her family to Chicago as a young girl.She considered the Windy City her true home.Her gift lives on through her rich musical legacy.Celebrating the Difference Dinah Washington MadeMar.Found
The document has moved here.For a while she did split her time between clubs and singing and playing piano in Salle Martin's gospel choir as Ruth Jones.There's some dispute about the origin of her name.Some sources say the manager of the Garrick Stage Bar gave her the name Dinah Washington; other say it was Hampton who selected it.It is undisputed Hampton heard and was impressed by Washington, who'd been discovered by manager Joe Glaser.She worked in Hampton's band from 1943 to 1946.However she was only 39 and still in peak musical form when she died from an accidental overdose of diet pills and alcohol in 1963.Other music industry
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