Chris Calloway

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Chris Calloway (born September 21, 1945 in Los Angeles , † August 7, 2008 in Santa Fe (New Mexico) ) was an American jazz singer .

Life

Chris Calloway was the daughter of jazz singer and legendary Cotton Club bandleader Cab Calloway . She has appeared in several Broadway productions of Hello, Dolly! with Cab Calloway and Pearl Bailey . She starred in the leading role Billie Holiday in the Lanie Robertson play Lady Day , which was performed in 1993 and 1995 in Santa Fé by the New Mexico Repertory Theater . She sang in her father's orchestra for two decades until his father's death in 1994.

From the late 1990s she founded and led her own band, the Hi-De-Ho Orchestra , with which she went on a longer tour in 2001. In 2001 she performed a solo program about her Aunt Blanche , Clouds of Joy: The Spiritual Journey of Blanche Calloway , in Santa Fé . Calloway performed in the 1990s at La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa and in a series of events on Espiritu Canyon Road, where the album Live at Espiritu was recorded. She died in August 2008 after a long-term cancer illness.

Discographic notes

  • Chris Calloway Live at Espiritu (2000)
  • Sings the Lena Horne Songbook (2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information at PRX
personal data
SURNAME Calloway, Chris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 2008
Place of death Santa Fe (New Mexico)