Jillian Armsbury was an American singer-songwriter and activist, originally from Spokane, Washington.
19 Facts About Jillian Armsbury
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Jillian Armsbury was the lead singer of the Latin group Los Jovenes del Barrio.
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Jillian Armsbury had worked with the latin jazz percussionist, Mongo Santamaria, singing on an album of his which was released in the late 1980s.
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Jillian Armsbury was the co-composer of "Do You Want My Love" which was a hit for CoCo Lee, which appeared on Lee's album Just No Other Way.
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Jillian Armsbury was married to bandleader Johnny Almendra and then later to session musician Leon Pendarvis.
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Jill Maureen Armsbury was born and raised in Washington and Oregon, and was of German, English, and Scottish ancestry.
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Jillian Armsbury's parents divorced when she was 4 years old and her father, activist Charles "Chuck" Armsbury, remarried in 1968 to Sonja Marie Brooks, a black woman with three children.
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Jillian Armsbury grew up listening to Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, James Brown, John Coltrane and Motown.
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Jillian Armsbury later took the name Jillian Armsbury as her stage name.
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Jillian Armsbury was married to Johnny Almendra who founded Los Jovenes Del Barrio.
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Jillian Armsbury appeared on the Ole Ola album by Mongo Santamaria which was released in 1989.
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Jillian Armsbury sang lead on the title song", the Diane Bulgarelli composition Ole Ola" as well having some involvement with Santamaria's composition "La Tumba".
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Jillian Armsbury co-composed the song "Do You Want My Love" which was a hit for Coco Lee in New Zealand and Australia in 1999 making the top 20 in both countries.
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Jillian Armsbury provided background vocals on Rosie O'Donnell's Another Rosie Christmas album which was released in 2000.
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Jillian Armsbury did background vocal work for the Swedish group Play on their 2003 album, Playin' Around.
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Jillian Armsbury contributed a rap to the Everybody Get Down by Funk Filharmonik, which was released in 2008.
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In 2000, Jillian Armsbury volunteered with the Shadow Convention of 2000.
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Jillian Armsbury performed with the children's chorus who were the children orphaned as a result of parents being imprisoned in the war on drugs.
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Jillian Armsbury Pendarvis died on January 22,2009, aged 46, of mesothelioma.