Sylvia Syms

Person · Open Library

Works

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1917

Active to

1992

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

6,604

Total plays

28,987

Sylvia Syms (December 2, 1917 - May 10, 1992) was a jazz singer. She was born Sylvia Blagman in Brooklyn, New York. As a child, she had polio. As a teenager, she went to jazz-oriented nightclubs on New York's 52nd Street, and received informal training from Billie Holiday. In 1941 she made her debut at a club called Billy's Stable. In 1948, performing at the Cinderella Club in Greenwich Village, she was seen by Mae West, who gave her a part in a show she was doing. <a href="https://www.last.fm

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,999x

2. Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2021 · cited 6,884x

3. Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 6,195x

4. Global aetiology and epidemiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications

   · 2017 · cited 4,796x

5. The Immune Landscape of Cancer

   · 2018 · cited 4,779x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Sylvia

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New York City

Place of death

Algonquin Hotel

Occupation

jazz musician

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

jazz

Instrument

voice

Record label

Prestige

Image

Sylvia Syms Jazz Singer.jpg

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