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Infobox musical artist | name = Dee Dee Bridgewater| image = Dee_dee_bridgewater.jpg| caption = Dee Dee Bridgewater in concert with the Big Band of the Kölner Musikhochschule on July 7, 2006 in Cologne, Germany.| image_size = | landscape = yes| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Denise Eileen Garrett| alias =| Born = Birth date and age|1950|5|27|mf=y Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis , Tennessee , United States|USA | death_date =| origin = Flint, Michigan|Flint , Michigan , United States|USA | instrument = Vocals | genre = Jazz , R& B music|R& B , Hip hop | occupation = Singer , Actress | years_active = 1966–present| label = Verve Records|Verve | associated_acts =| website = http://www.deedeebridgewater.com/ DeeDeeBridgewater.com| notable_instruments =Dee Dee Bridgewater (born May 27, 1950) is an United States of America|American Jazz singer . She is a three-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter , as well as a Tony Award - winning stage actress and host of National Public Radio 's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater . She is a United Nations Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization .
Biography
Born Denise Eileen Garrett in Memphis, Tennessee , she grew up in Flint, Michigan . Her father, Matthew Garrett, was a jazz trumpeter and teacher at Manassas High School, and through his playing, Denise was exposed to jazz early on. At the age of sixteen, she was a member of a rock and rhythm and blues|rhythm'n'blues trio, singing in clubs in Michigan . At 18, she studied at the Michigan State University before she went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . With their jazz band, she toured the SovietUnion in 1969. The next year, she met trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater , and after their marriage, they moved to New York City , where Cecil played in Horace Silver 's band.
In the early 1970s, Bridgewater joined the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band|Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra as the lead vocalist.Larkin, Colin. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music , Guinness, page 547, (1995) - ISBN 1561591769 This marked the beginning of her jazz career, and she performed with many of the great jazz musicians of the time, such as Sonny Rollins , Dizzy Gillespie , Dexter Gordon , Max Roach , Rahsaan Roland Kirk and others. She performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1973. In 1974, her first own album, entitled Afro Blue , appeared, and she also performed on Broadway in the Musical theater|musical The Wiz . For her role as Glinda the Good Witch she won a Tony Award in 1975 as "best featured actress", and the musical also won the 1976 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album . She subsequently appeared in several other stage productions. After touring France in 1984 with the musical Sophisticated Ladies , she moved to Paris in 1986. The same year saw her in Lady Day as Billie Holiday , for which role she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award . In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she returned from the world of musical to jazz. She performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1990, and four years later, she finally collaborated with Horace Silver , whom she had long admired, and released the album Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver . Performed also at the San Francisco Jazz Festival (1996). Her 1997 tribute album Dear Ella won her the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album , and the 1998 album '' Live at Yoshi's (Dee Dee Bridgewater album)|Live at Yoshi's was also worth a Grammy nomination. Performed again at the Monterey Jazz Festival (1998). She has also explored on This is New (2002) the songs of Kurt Weill , and, on her next album J'ai Deux Amours (2005), the French Classics.
Her album Red Earth (Dee Dee Bridgewater album)|Red Earth , released in 2007, features Africa-inspired themes and contributions by numerous musicians from the West Africa n nation of Mali . Performed at the San Francisco Jazz Festival (2007).
December 8, 2007 performed with the Terence Blanchard Quintet at the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. . http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm? fuseaction=showEvent& event=MIJPB Kennedy Center: The Movie Music of SpikeLee and Terence Blanchard She tours frequently, including overseas gigs around the world. October 16, 2009 found her opening the Shanghai JZ Jazz Festival, in which Dee Dee covered a good deal of tunes associated with Ella Fitzgerald, along with Ellington compositions and other jazz standards.
China Moses is her daughter.
Family life
Bridgewater is mother to three children, Tulani Bridgewater (from her marriage to Cecil Bridgewater), China Moses (from her marriage to theater, film and television director Gilbert Moses ) and Gabriel Durand (from her last marriage to French concert promoter Jean-Marie Durand). Her eldest daughter, Tulani Bridgewater attended The Mirman School for the Gifted in Los Angeles, CA. She went on to graduate from the Ecole Active Bilingue in Paris, France at age 16, going on to graduate from Vassar College . She serves as Bridgewater's manager and runs Bridgewater's production company and record label (DDB Productions, Inc. And DDB Records). Daughter China Moses is an accomplished singer and MTV VJ (France). Her critically acclaimed albums have earned her an international reputation as heir to Bridgewater's legacy. Moses tours worldwide occasionally sharing the bill with Bridgewater.
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Career Wins: 3 http://www.deedeebridgewater.com/awards.html Album Awards List
Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee Bridgewater
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Bridgewater is the first American to be inducted to the Haut Conseil de la Francophonie. She has received the Award of Arts and Letters in France. She also won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in The Wiz .
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Billboardhttp:/ / www.billboard.com/ bbcom/ retrieve_chart_history.do? model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums& model.vnuArtistId=45561& model.vnuAlbumId=907902 Billboard Artist Chart History: Dee Dee Bridgewater
http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm? fuseaction=showIndividual& entity_id=3487& source_type=A Another biography
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