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Dee Dee Bridgewater
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Dee Dee Bridgewater
Homepage
http://www.deedeebridgewater.com/
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1950-05-27,Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
Dee Dee Bridgewater (née Denise Garrett, May 27, 1950) is an American jazz singer and actress. She is a three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award-winning stage actress. For 23 years, she was the host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. She is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization. Born Denise Eileen Garrett in Memphis, Tennessee, she was raised Catholic in Flint, Michigan. Her father, Matthew Garrett, was a jazz trumpeter and teacher at Manassas High School, and through his playing, she was exposed to jazz early on. At the age of sixteen, she was a member of a Rock and R&B trio, singing in clubs in Michigan. At 18, she studied at Michigan State University before she went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With the school's jazz band, she toured the Soviet Union in 1969. The next year, she met trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater, and after their marriage, they moved to New York City, where Cecil played in Horace Silver's band. In the early 1970s, Bridgewater joined the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra as lead vocalist. This marked the beginning of her jazz career, and she performed with many of the great jazz musicians of the time, such as Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Max Roach, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Wayne Garfield, and others. She performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1973. In 1974, her first solo album, entitled Afro Blue, appeared, and she performed on Broadway in the musical The Wiz. For her role as Glinda the Good Witch she won a Tony Award in 1975 as "Best Featured Actress", and the musical also won the 1976 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. She subsequently appeared in several other stage productions. After touring France in 1984 with the musical Sophisticated Ladies, she moved to Paris in 1986. The same year saw her in Lady Day, as Billie Holiday, for which role she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award, as well as recording the song "Precious Thing" with Ray Charles, featured on her album Victim of Love. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she returned from the world of Pop and Contemporary R&B to Jazz. She performed at the Sanremo Music Festival in Italy and the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1990, and four years later, she finally collaborated with Horace Silver, whom she had long admired, and released the album Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver. Performed also at the San Francisco Jazz Festival (1996). Her 1997 tribute album Dear Ella won her the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, and the 1998 album Live at Yoshi's was also worth a Grammy nomination. Performed again at the Monterey Jazz Festival (1998). She has also explored on This Is New (2002) the songs of Kurt Weill, and, on her next album J'ai deux amours (2005), the French Classics. ... Source: Article "Dee Dee Bridgewater" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

Billie Holiday: A Sensation

8

Billie Holiday: A Sensation
2015-04-07

Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure

6.2

Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
2007-07-29

Dee Dee Bridgewater

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Dee Dee Bridgewater "Motherland"
2007-02-22

Dee Dee Bridgewater Sings Kurt Weill Live At North Sea Jazz Festival

6.5

Dee Dee Bridgewater Sings Kurt Weill Live At North Sea Jazz Festival
2004-03-23

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Jazz Open Stuttgart

4.8

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Jazz Open Stuttgart
2013-07-06

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

0

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023-03-12

Everybody Rides the Carousel

5.8

Everybody Rides the Carousel
1975-06-08

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Jazz in Marciac

4.5

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Jazz in Marciac
2014-08-06

Jazz at the White House

0

Jazz at the White House
2016-04-30

Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen

0

Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen
2002-02-02

Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald

8

Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald
2017-02-19

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Live in Antibes & Juan-Les-Pins

5.8

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Live in Antibes & Juan-Les-Pins
2010-03-02

It's Not About Love

0

It's Not About Love
1998-09-19

Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

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Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe
2006-11-02

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh

5.6

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
1979-11-06

The Brother from Another Planet

6.7

The Brother from Another Planet
1984-09-07

7

Night Partners
1983-10-11

Jazz Open Stuttgart 2017 - Festival of World Stars and Child Prodigies

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Jazz Open Stuttgart 2017 - Festival of World Stars and Child Prodigies
2017-10-12

Quincy Jones & Friends - Live at Jazz Open Stuttgart

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Quincy Jones & Friends - Live at Jazz Open Stuttgart
2017-10-24

7.4

Fort Boyard
1990-07-07

Victoires de la musique

2

Victoires de la musique
1985-11-23

La Boîte à musique

7.5

La Boîte à musique
2006-07-14

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

7.4

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962-10-01

The Mike Douglas Show

5.1

The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11

Le Grand Échiquier

8

Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12

Highlander: The Series

7.4

Highlander: The Series
1992-10-03

6.167

Champs-Elysées
1982-01-16

Le monde est à vous

0

Le monde est à vous
1987-09-13

5

Téléthon
1987-12-04

Vivement dimanche

3

Vivement dimanche
1998-09-20

Great Performances

5.4

Great Performances
1971-01-28

4.5

L'Invité
2002-01-01

Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas with Vanessa Williams

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Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas with Vanessa Williams
2020-12-15

6.2

Sacrée soirée
1987-09-02