By Nancye Tuttle [email protected] LOWELL — At her peak in the ’50s and early ’60s, blues songstress Dinah Washington seemed to have it all — a commanding stage presence, a stunning ...

They called her “Queen of the Blues,” a title Dinah Washington wore with pride and disdain. The way she saw it, Miss D could sing anything – and she did. Blues, country, schmaltzy… ...

Get breaking news and the latest updates on Dinah Washington, plus photos, video, background, and more. News. Today's news; US; ... American Legend. 2002. Stairway to the Stars [Proper] 2002 ...

Before her death at 39 in 1963, singer Dinah Washington battled her seven husbands, ... In his 2001 biography Q, music legend Quincy Jones vividly describes Washington's style, ...

Brash, bold and, later, sometimes blonde Dinah Washington packed heat, gobbled diet pills, and was a taskmaster both in the studio and on the bandstand. If it was a gut-bucket blues or a highly ...

Writer Nadine Cohodas celebrates the life of the Alabama-born Dinah Washington. She would have turned 80 on August 29. The crossover jazz, blues and light pop star is famous for the Grammy-winning ...

Did Dinah Washington really lose it when she attended one of Aretha Franklin’s shows and heard Franklin sing one of Washington’s songs — as depicted in the new movie “Respect”? Not quite ...

Gwyneth Herbert joins Alyn Shipton to pick the essential recordings by the great jazz diva Dinah Washington, including her bluesy mid-1940s repertoire and American popular song.