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Beverly Kenney
Sign in to saveAmerican jazz vocalist (1932-1960)
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1932
- Active to
- 1960
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Beverly Kenney (January 29, 1932, Harrison, New Jersey – April 13, 1960, New York City) was an American jazz singer. Kenney worked early in life for Western Union as a telephone birthday singer. After moving to New York City, she recorded a demo in 1954 with Tony Tamburello; the demo was released in its entirety in 2006 by SSJ Records in 2006 under the title Snuggled on Your Shoulder. By the end of the year she had moved to Miami, where she landed a recurring engagement at the Black Magic Room.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Beverly
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Harrison
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- voice
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- date of birth
- 1932-01-29
- date of death
- 1960-04-13
- manner of death
- Suicide
- cause of death
- drug overdose
- start of work period
- 1955-00-00
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