1. Ernestine Anderson was an American jazz and blues singer.
17 Facts About Ernestine Anderson
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Ernestine Anderson was nominated four times for a Grammy Award.
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Ernestine Anderson sang at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival, as well as at jazz festivals all over the world.
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Ernestine Irene Anderson were born in Houston, Texas, on November 11,1928.
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Ernestine Anderson's mother, Erma, was a housewife, and her father, Joseph, a construction worker who sang bass in a gospel quartet.
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Ernestine Anderson started singing at a local church, singing solos in its gospel choir.
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Ernestine Anderson tells of her early life in the 1998 book The Jazz Scene:.
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Ernestine Anderson's family moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1944, when she was 16.
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Ernestine Anderson's first show was at the Washington Social Club on East Madison Street.
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When she was 18, Ernestine Anderson left Seattle, to tour for a year with the Johnny Otis band.
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In 1959 Ernestine Anderson won the DownBeat "New Star" Award and recorded for Mercury to more acclaim, before dividing her time from the mid-1960s between America and Europe.
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Ernestine Anderson died peacefully, surrounded by her family in Shoreline, Washington, on March 10,2016, at the age of 87.
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Ernestine Anderson was featured in an article in Time magazine, August 4,1958: "the voice belongs to Negro Singer Ernestine Anderson, at 29 perhaps the best-kept jazz secret in the land" after her first album release.
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Ernestine Anderson is inevitably compared to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday.
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Ernestine Anderson was one of 75 women chosen for the book, I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America, by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Brian Lanker.
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Ernestine Anderson won the Golden Umbrella award at the Bumbershoot Seattle arts festival in 2002.
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Ernestine Anderson was chosen by the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Recording Academy to receive its 2004 IMPACT Award.