Susannah McCorkle
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- No more blues
- Thanks for the memory
- How do you keep the music playing?
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Susannah McCorkle (1 January 1946 – 19 May 2001) was an American jazz singer much admired for her direct, unadorned singing style and quiet intensity. McCorkle was born in Berkeley, California. She studied modern languages at the University of California, Berkeley. McCorkle began singing professionally after hearing recordings of Billie Holiday in Paris in the late 1960s. She nearly became an interpreter at the European Commission in Brussels, but moved instead to London in 1972 to pursue a car
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- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Berkeley
- Place of death
- United States
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Concord Records
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