Keely Smith

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.

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".

Smith died of apparent heart failure in Palm Springs, California on December 16, 2017 at the age of 85.Iconic vocalist Keely Smith dies from apparent heart failure at 89

References

Other websites
 NPR: "Keely Smith: A Swingin' Icon of Early Vegas"
 Interview by KUOW-FM's Amanda Wilde 

Category:American Grammy Award winners
Category:1932 births
Category:2017 deaths
Category:Deaths from heart failure
Category:American pop singers
Category:American jazz musicians
Category:Singers from Virginia
Category:Musicians from Virginia
Category:People from Norfolk, Virginia