Rita Reys

Rita Reys (21 December 1924 – 28 July 2013) was a jazz singer from the Netherlands. In 1960, she was given the title "Europe's first lady of jazz".Rita Reys @ All About Jazz; accessed 5 March 2014. She sang jazz and bossa nova.John S. Wilson "Rita Reys: First Lady of European Jazz", New York Times, 5 June 1981

Reys was born in Rotterdam. She died in Breukelen at age eighty-eight.

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Category:Dutch jazz musicians
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Category:Musicians from South Holland
Category:Entertainers from Rotterdam