Jeanette McLeod
Jeanette McLeod , also MacLeod (* 1946 in Glasgow , Scotland , † December 14, 2011 in Glasgow) was a British jazz singer who worked in Germany for many years.
life and career
MacLeod, born in Glasgow in 1946, was already on stage as a singer at the age of four; as a teenager she discovered jazz. Inspired by vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald , Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan , she decided to become a jazz singer. In 1970 she moved to West Germany; over the next seven years she performed in many European countries and made a name for herself as a swing singer . She worked for ten years in Stuttgart with the Rudi Reindl Big Band and the Stuttgart Small Stars , with whom she recorded an album in 1981. In the following years she performed on cruise ships. From 1990 she worked with the Stuttgart pianist, bandleader and producer Frieder Berlin and lived in Karlsruhe for several years before returning to Scotland in 1999. In Germany she last performed in 2009 at the Heilbronn jazz club Cave 61 with Axel Lauser.
Discographic notes
- Stuttgarter Small Stars & Jeanette McLeod Live (Jazz Point, 1981)
- The Voice of Swing with The Frieder Berlin Swing Project ( Satin Doll , 1991) with Peter Reiter , Ernst Hutter , Dieter Goal , Karoline Höfler , Reiner Oliva
Web links
- Literature by and about Jeanette McLeod in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jeanette McLeod at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McLeod, Jeanette |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | MacLeod, Jeanette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British jazz singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow , Scotland |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 2011 |
| Place of death | Glasgow , Scotland |