Dinah was born June 9,1954 in Vicksburg MS to Charlie Robb and . Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 71°F. Friday, April 18th 2025 eNewspaper. Home Page. Subscriber Services ...

Tuscaloosa's 30th Avenue became Dinah Washington Avenue, 2009. Download this: "The Fats Waller Songbook," 1957 album. On the Web: Entries at Wikipedia , Allmusic , Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...

But the most famed is Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones in Tuscaloosa, Aug. 29, 1924, who under her stage name became one of the most popular Black female artists of the 20th century, as a ...

Featuring some of the top players of the '50s like Wynton Kelly on keys and Clark Terry on trumpet, the LP 'For Those in Love' really sums up what Dinah Washington was all about. Posted 9h ago 9 ...

Dinah Washington was best known for the song “What a Difference a Day Makes.” The same could be said of Shadow Theatre, which christened its striking new home in Aurora with Thursday’s ...

The singer Dinah Washington, known as "Queen of the Blues," reputedly once emptied a Los Angeles nightclub after firing a gun at one of the chorus line dancers whom she suspected of having an ...

Dinah Washington: A Queen in Turmoil Before her death at 39 in 1963, singer Dinah Washington battled her seven husbands, her weight and even her fans. But when she sang, nothing else mattered.

In 1993, Washington was inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in the "early influences" category. And yet, no modern singer has had Washington's particular combination of talent, sass and pluck.

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… ...

Dinah Washington on Video. Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers June 27, 2013. Of all the many female jazz singers, Dinah Washington remains the most contemporary. Her voice was always cocked and loaded, her ...