page_title: Connee Boswell
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Connee Boswell / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Begonia Connee Boswell
context_page_description: Constance Foore "Connee" Boswell was an American female vocalist born in Kansas City but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. With sisters Martha and Helvetia "Vet", she performed in the 1920s and 1930s as the trio The Boswell Sisters. They started as instrumentalists but became a highly influential singing group during this via their recordings and film and television appearances
  Connee herself is widely considered one of the greatest jazz female vocalists and was a major influence on Ella Fitzgerald who said, "My mother brought home one of her records, and I fell in love with it....I tried so hard to sound just like her." In 1936, Connee's sisters retired and Connee continued on as a solo artist.
context_section_description: Connee Boswell died on October 11, 1976 from stomach cancer at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York City at age 68.
  She was married to Harry Leedy and had no children. Her life was chronicled in the 2006 documentary short subject, Connee Boswell: Life is a Song, produced by Randall Riley. The film premiered during the Boswell Sisters Centennial in New Orleans in 2007. The documentary was also screened as La Vida es un Cancion in Spain at the Swing Sevilla Festival on April 2, 2016, with Spanish subtitles.
  On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Connee Boswell among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.
caption: Begonia Connee Boswell
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