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Keely Smith
American singer (1928-2017) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Keely Smith (born Dorothy Jacqueline Keely, March 9, 1932 — December 16, 2017) was a Grammy Award-winning American jazz and popular music singer. She performed and recorded many times in the 1950s with then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo-artist.
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Birth name | Dorothy Jacqueline Keely |
Born | (1932-03-09)March 9, 1932 Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. |
Died | December 16, 2017(2017-12-16) (aged 85) Palm Springs, California, U.S. |
Genres | Jazz, vocal jazz, pop |
Occupation(s) | Singer |
Years active | 1949–2017 |
Labels | Capitol, Dot |
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With her former husband Prima, their songs included Johnny Mercer's and Harold Arlen's "That Ol' Black Magic", which was a Top 20 hit in the US in 1958. At the 1st Annual Grammy Awards in 1959, Smith and Prima won the first Grammy for Best Performance by a Vocal Group for "That Ol' Black Magic".[1]
Smith died of apparent heart failure in Palm Springs, California on December 16, 2017 at the age of 85.[2]