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Rita Reys (full name: Maria Everdina Reys, born Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 21 December 1924 - died Breukelen, The Netherlands, 28 July 2013) was a Dutch jazz vocalist who, at the 1960 French jazz festival of Juan-Les-Pins, received the title "Europe's First Lady of Jazz". Her first husband, jazz drummer Wessel Icken, introduced her into the jazz scene around 1943. She recorded dozens of albums: with her own sextet, with Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers (in 1956) and - more than with anybody el
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Rotterdam
- Place of death
- Breukelen
- Spouse
- Pim Jacobs
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Universal Music Group
- Official website
- www.ritareys.eu
- Image
- Noordengroot3.jpg
- Work location
- Rotterdam
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- Rita Reys
- date of death
- 2013-07-28
- date of birth
- 1924-12-21
- cause of death
- stroke
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- Maria Everdina Reijs
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