Cleo Laine

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Dame Cleo Laine (2007)

Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth , DBE born when Clementina Dinah Campbell (* 28. October 1927 in Middlesex , UK ) is an English jazz - singer , a classical singer and actress .

Live and act

She was born in a suburb of London to a Jamaican father and an English mother. Although she took singing and dance lessons at an early age, she did not begin to sing professionally jazz in the scat style until she was in her twenties, in the band (Johnny Dankworth Seven and his Big Band from 1954) of saxophonist and clarinetist John Dankworth (1927-2010), whom she married in 1958. Their daughter is the jazz singer Jacqui Dankworth (* 1963) and their son the jazz bassist Alec Dankworth (* 1960). Her first marriage was from 1947 until the divorce in 1957 with the sailor George Langridge, with whom she also has a son.

In 1959, she met Ella Fitzgerald at a performance in New York's Birdland . At the same time she began in the theater (in the ancestral home of the "angry young men" generation of British playwrights of the 1950s, the Royal Court Theater , among other things. She played in many Ibsen roles) and in musicals, e. B. in the musical Valmouth (1959), in Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins (Edinburgh Festival 1961), in the play A time to laugh (1962 with Robert Morley and Ruth Gordon ) and in the musical Showboat (1971). Her song You'll Answer to Me reached the British Top 10 in 1961. Her album Shakespeare and all that Jazz with John Dankworth from 1964 was also a success. From the 1970s she toured the USA regularly (concerts at Carnegie Hall from 1973) and Canada. She had great success in 1980 at the All Woman Jazz Festival in Kansas. She received her first Grammy in 1986 for her live album from Carnegie Hall . She recorded albums with Ray Charles ( Porgy and Bess ), Mel Tormé ( Nothing without you ) and performed a. a. with James Galway , Nigel Kennedy , John Williams (album Best friends ) and Julian Lloyd Webber . Her interpretation of Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot lunaire earned her her first Grammy in the field of classical music. Also in the 1980s she appeared in musicals, u. a. in the world premiere of The mystery of Edwin Drood on Broadway, as Merry Widow, in Stephen Sondheim's A little night music and Into the woods .

She is an ambassador for the SOS Children's Villages . In her home town of Wavendon in Buckinghamshire she founded the cultural center "The Stables".

Awards

In 1979 she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Elizabeth II , in 1997 she was ennobled as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) and could now call herself "Dame" - 9 years before her husband was also ennobled as a Knight Bachelor . Together with him they formed the “royal couple” of British jazz. She is an honorary doctor of Berklee College , Cambridge , York , Luton and the Open University . In 1991 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the US record industry.

Cleo Laine is the only person to date to have received Grammys in both classical, jazz and pop categories.

Discography (selection)

  • 1950-52 Get Happy
  • 1955 Cleo Sings British
  • 1957 Meet Cleo Laine
  • 1957 In Retrospect
  • 1957 She's the Tops
  • 1959 Valmouth
  • 1961 Jazz Date (with Tubby Hayes)
  • 1961 Spotlight on Cleo
  • 1962 All About Me
  • 196? Cleo Laine Jazz Master Series
  • 1963 CindyElla
  • 1963 Beyond the Blues (American Negro Poetry)
  • 1964 Shakespeare and All That Jazz
  • 1964 This Is Cleo Laine
  • 1966 Woman Talk
  • 1967 Facade (with Annie Ross)
  • 1968 If We Lived on Top of a Mountain
  • 1968 Soliloquy
  • 1969 The Idol
  • 1969 The Unbelievable Miss Cleo Laine
  • 1971 portrait
  • 1972 An Evening with Cleo Laine and the John Dankworth Quartet
  • 1972 Feel the Warm
  • 1972 showboat
  • 1972 This Is Cleo Laine
  • 1973 I am a song
  • 1973 Day by Day
  • 1974 Live at Carnegie Hall
  • 1974 Close Up
  • 1974 Pierrot Lunaire (Schoenberg) Ives Songs
  • 1974 A Beautiful Thing (with James Galway)
  • 1974 Easy Living
  • 1974 Spotlight on Cleo Laine
  • 1974 Cleo's Choice
  • 1975 Cleo's Choice
  • 1975 The Unbelievable Miss Cleo Laine
  • 1976 Born on a Friday
  • 1976 Close Up
  • 1976 Live at the Wavendon Festival
  • 1976 Porgy & Bess (with Ray Charles)
  • 1976 Return to Carnegie
  • 1976 Best Friends (with John Williams, UK: silversilver)
  • 1976 Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz in the 70’s
  • 1977 20 Famous Show Hits
  • 1977 The Sly Cormorant
  • 19 ?? Romantic Cleo
  • 1978 Showbiz Personalities of 1977
  • 1978 The Early Years
  • 1978 Gonna Get Through
  • 1978 A Lover & His Lass
  • 1978 Wordsongs
  • 1979 One More Day
  • 1979 The Cleo Laine Collection
  • 1980 Cleo's Choice
  • 1980 Collette
  • 1980 Sometimes When We Touch (with James Galway, UK:goldgold)
  • 1980 The Incomparable
  • 1981 One More Day
  • 1982 Smilin 'Through (with Dudley Moore)
  • 1983 Platinum Collection
  • 1983 Off the Record
  • 1984 Let the Music Take You
  • 1985 Cleo at Carnegie: the 10th Anniversary Concert
  • 1985 That Old Feeling
  • 1985 Johnny Dankworth and His Orchestra ,
  • 1985 The John Dankworth 7 featuring Cleo Laine
  • 1986 Wordsongs
  • 1986 The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • 1986 Unforgettable: 16 Golden Classics
  • 1986 Cleo Laine: The Essential Collection
  • 1987 Unforgettable
  • 1987 Classic Gershwin
  • 1988 Cleo Laine Sings Sondheim
  • 1988 Cleo Laine & John Dankworth: Shakespeare and All That Jazz
  • 1989 Woman to Woman
  • 1989 jazz
  • 1989 Portrait of a Song Stylist
  • 1991 Young at Heart
  • 1991 Spotlight on Cleo Laine
  • 1991 Pachelbel's Greatest Hits
  • 1993 On the Town
  • 1994 I am a song
  • 1994 Blue and Sentimental
  • 1995 Solitude
  • 1997 The Very Best of Cleo Laine
  • 1997 Mad About the Boy
  • 1998 Ridin 'High (Early Sessions)
  • 1999 That Old Feeling
  • 2001 Quintessential Cleo
  • 2001 Live in Manhattan
  • 2006 London Pride
  • 2010 Jazz Matters

Web links

Commons : Cleo Laine  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
personal data
SURNAME Laine, Cleo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campbell, Clementina Dinah; Dankworth, Lady Clementina Dinah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English jazz singer, classical singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Middlesex , England , UK