Dina Washington Biography

Subscribe to a magnificent singer with an original and inimitable voice - Dina Washington. The girl did not perceive restrictions and always strove for free self -expression. Dina Washington perfectly fit into any style of the 20th century. Her vocal data conquered the all kinds of jazz and fell in love with listeners. The singer perfectly performed the rhythm-n-blinom and the classic of the blues.

Children's years on the 29th day of the last summer month of the year in Alabama, Ruth Lee Jones was born. In the year, when the girl turned 3 years old, her relatives moved to Chicago. The future Dina Washington played on the piano and performed Christian hymns in the church of the Baptists, and when she went to high school, she was instructed to control the choir in the church.

She performed with the composition "Ay Kent Face Su Music." After the win, she decided to start her career in clubs.

At that time she was 15 years old. A year has passed and Dina Washington appeared in the jazz bar. The idea of ​​a new name was invented by singer manager Joe Glazer and Leonel Hampton, who led the most popular groups in Chicago. He called Dina to become his singer. With Hampton, the vocalist worked for a couple of years. At the age of 19, the talented performer recorded her first album, called "Evil Gal Blues".

The sound recording was helped by Leonard Fiter, who is the author of this song, and in the studio played a sextet consisting of the musicians of Lionel Hampton. Dina Washington began her solo quarry in the year. Dina more than once collaborated with the author of compositions by Leonard Fiter. It is worth noting that thanks to him, she released her best rhythm-n-blinker compositions of the 10ths.

In the year, Dina Washington concludes a contract with the record-commander of Mercury and records songs that constantly fall in the ten jazz and rhythm-n-blinker hits. Creativity a huge number of jazz compositions was recorded by Dean Washington with famous groups and tiny bands. The most famous with Brown Clifford, later they were embodied in the Dinah Jams record. The first record of the singer - Dina Washington Songs came out in the year.

And for the first time in the last 8 years of creative life, she released 15 albums. In the year, her name thundered throughout the world. So, her song “Unforgettable” falls into the register of pop songs, and the disk of the same name is in 10th place in the list of pop albums. After that, her arrangement of Hit Dorsi Vruz “What Difference A Day Makes” reproduced in the Latin American style rose to the 8th line of the hit parade.

And according to musical critics, the album “What Difference A Day Makes” is recognized as the most significant for the history of vocal women. Personal life 8 times the performer of Jazz got married, and there were no two son - this is George Kenneth Jenkins and Robert Grayson. In the year, she married John Yang, their relationship lasted a year, a divorce took place in the year. The second husband is George Jenkins, with him the singer played a wedding in the year.

And in the year she married Walter Buchenen for the third time. Seven years later, she became the wife of the famous saxophonist Eddie Chambli. In the same year, she signed with Raphael Campos. The sixth spouse of the vocalist became Horatio Mayar in the year, they divorced next year. With Jackie Hasem, they got married in a year. The last husband of the star was a football player Dick Lane.

The singer's heart at the age of 39 stopped. In the early morning of the year, namely, on December 14, the married couple went to rest, Dick woke up from the fact that Dina had fallen and did not show signs of life. As a result of the autopsy, it turned out that the singer could not withstand the combination of alcohol and pill for losing weight. Dina gave her "farewell" concert two weeks before in Los Angeles.

During the take -off of her career, the performer of Jazz enjoyed incredible authority among musicians. Even, despite the fact that more than forty years has passed since the day of her death, it has been in the list of the most influential personalities of the 20th century.