Laine, Dame Cleo

Laine, Dame Cleo

▪ British singer
original name in full  Clementina Dinah Campbell 
born October 28, 1927, Southall, Middlesex, England
 
 British singer and actress who mastered a variety of styles but was best known as the “Queen of Jazz.”

      Laine was born to a Jamaican father and an English mother. She quit school at age 14 and took a variety of jobs while auditioning for singing jobs. Her first break came in 1951, when she was hired as a vocalist for the Johnny Dankworth Seven, a well-known jazz group. At that point she adopted the simpler name “Cleo Laine.” In her seven years dedicated solely to performing with Dankworth's band, she gained a large following and also began to record. In 1958, the year she married Dankworth, she took her first theatrical role, in Flesh to a Tiger, set in Jamaica. Her success in the part led her to take on a number of other acting roles throughout the years, and she was a regular on the weekly BBC television satire That Was the Week That Was.

      In the meantime, she continued to stretch herself as a singer, presenting lieder, classic blues, contemporary pop music, and even works by Arnold Schoenberg in her concerts; she was the only singer to receive Grammy nominations in jazz, popular, and classical categories. Laine was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1979 and was in 1985 the first British singer to win a Grammy Award for best female jazz vocalist (for the album Cleo at Carnegie: The 10th Anniversary Concert). She also performed in plays by Euripides, Shakespeare, and Henrik Ibsen and took part in musical theatre, notably (1988–89) in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.

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