Marilyn Middleton Pollock
Marilyn Middleton Pollock (born October 25, 1947 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American singer who initially worked in folk and rock before she turned to jazz singing .
Middleton Pollock began singing folk music professionally when he was fifteen. She expanded her repertoire to rock & roll and blues before turning to jazz. In the late 1980s she moved to England, where she worked with Max Collie , with whom she also toured internationally. Her album Nobody Knows You received the Music Retailers Association Award for Excellence in 1988 . She appeared on the theater show A New Orleans Mardi Gras and thereafter in her critically acclaimed solo shows Those Women of the Vaudeville Blues and Jazz Me Blues . From 1994 she produced the series Vaudeville, Red Hot and Blue for BBC Radio 2 with her jazz band The Chicago Hoods . She toured the UK several times with her Chicago Hoods .
Lexical references
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz music. 1700 artists and bands from the beginning until today. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584-X .
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| SURNAME | Middleton Pollock, Marilyn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American folk and jazz singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |