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This is a list of swing and Western swing musicians. Swing. Anita O'Day (1919–2006) Art Tatum (1909–1956) Artie Shaw (1910–2004) Ben Webster (1909–1973)
This list contains singers and groups who performed in the new jack swing (or swingbeat) [1] [2] style, a hybrid style popular from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s. [3] It developed as many previous music genres did, by combining elements of jazz, R&B, funk and hip hop. [4]
Singers in the genre of swing music. Pages in category "Swing singers" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
Classic female blues singers (79 P) C. American women country singers (667 P) Cree women singers (6 P) F. American women folk singers (26 P) G. American girl groups ...
Girl groups have been popular at least since the heyday of the Boswell Sisters beginning in the 1930s, but the term "girl group" also denotes the wave of American female pop singing groups who flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s between the decline of early rock and roll and the British Invasion, many of whom were influenced by doo-wop ...
Helen Forrest (born Helen Fogel, April 12, 1917 – July 11, 1999) was an American singer of traditional pop and swing music.She served as the "girl singer" for three of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era (Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James), thereby earning a reputation as "the voice of the name bands."
Carpenter featured twice in the list with disco bop Espresso, which spent seven weeks at the top of the UK charts as well as winning song of the year at the Video Music Awards (VMAs), and Grammy ...
Women in jazz have contributed throughout the many eras of jazz history, both as performers and as composers, songwriters and bandleaders. While women such as Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald were famous for their jazz singing, women have achieved much less recognition for their contributions as composers, bandleaders and instrumental performers.