Joya Sherrill

Joya Sherrill (born August 20, 1927 in Bayonne , New Jersey ; married since 1946 as Joya Sherrill Guilmenot ; † June 28, 2010 ) was an American jazz singer , actress and presenter.

Live and act

Sherrill worked briefly with Duke Ellington in 1942 and was a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra for two years in 1944, after she had written a text for " Take the" A "Train . In the same year she had a hit with Ellington's "I'm Beginning to See the Light". She then worked as a soloist, but returned briefly to Ellington to perform the program A Drum Is a Woman (1956) with him . In 1959 she went on a nationwide tour before taking on a role in the Broadway play The Long Dream in 1960 . In the same year, the album Sugar and Spice was released under his own name . In 1962 she was on tour with Benny Goodman in the USSR, about which she reported in the documentary Jazz for the Russians - To Russia with Jazz (2011). She performed again with the Ellington Orchestra in 1963. In the 1970s she had a series "Time for Joya" on US children's television.

Selection discography

Joya Sherrill Sings Duke (Verve 1965) with Ray Nance , Cootie Williams , Johnny Hodges , Paul Gonsalves , Ernie Harper , Billy Strayhorn , Joe Benjamin , John Lamb
Black Beauty, the Duke in Mind

literature

James Lincoln Collier: Duke Ellington . Berlin, Ullstein, 1998.

Web links

Biography
All Music Guide
Joya Sherrill in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Remarks

↑ Collier describes her first attempt in the band in his Ellington biography: when she was fifteen, Ellington heard her singing in Detroit . Her middle class parents refused to let the seventeen-year-old go on tour with the Ellington Band. Eventually the compromise was reached that Joya's mother would travel as a "chaperone". But Joya Sherrill was young and inexperienced; and the whole condition only lasts for four months. See Collier. P. 359

personal data
SURNAME	Sherrill, Joya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Guilmenot, Joya Sherrill (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz singer, actress, and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bayonne, New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH	June 28, 2010

[1] Collier describes her first attempt in the band in his Ellington biography: when she was fifteen, Ellington heard her singing in Detroit . Her middle class parents refused to let the seventeen-year-old go on tour with the Ellington Band. Eventually the compromise was reached that Joya's mother would travel as a "chaperone". But Joya Sherrill was young and inexperienced; and the whole condition only lasts for four months. See Collier. P. 359