Dee Dee Bridgewater

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.Dee Dee Bridgewater (née Denise Garrett, May 27, 1950) bụ onye ọbụ abụ jazz na onye na-eme ihe nkiri America.  Ọ bụ onye na-agụ abụ na-abụ abụ na-emeri ihe nrite Grammy ugboro atọ, yana onye na-eme ihe nkiri na-emeri Tony Award.  Ruo afọ 23, ọ bụ onye ọbịa nke ihe ngosi redio syndicated National Public Radio JazzSet na Dee Dee Bridgewater.[1]  Ọ bụ onye nnọchi anya ezi omume nke United Nations maka Òtù Na-ahụ Maka Nri na Ọrụ Ugbo.[2]

.N'afọ sochirinụ, ọ zutere opi Cecil Bridgewater, mgbe alụmdi na nwunye ha gasịrị, ha kwagara New York City, bụ ebe Cecil na-egwuri egwu na Horace Silver's band.  Na mbido 1970s, Bridgewater sonyeere Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra dị ka onye ndu ụda olu.[1]  Nke a kara akara mmalite nke ọrụ jazz ya, ya na ọtụtụ ndị egwu jazz mara mma n'oge ahụ, dịka Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Max Roach, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Wayne Garfield na ndị ọzọ.  Ọ rụrụ na Monterey Jazz Festival na 1973. Na 1974, mbụ solo album, aha ya bụ Afro Blue, pụtara, na ọ rụrụ na Broadway na musical The Wiz.[2]  Maka ọrụ ya dị ka Glinda the Good Witch ọ meriri Tony Award na 1975 dị ka "Onye na-eme ihe nkiri kachasị mma", na egwu ahụ merikwara 1976 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album.

N'ọgwụgwụ 1980 na mmalite 1990s, ọ si na ụwa Pop na Contemporary R&B laghachi Jazz.  Ọ rụrụ na Sanremo Music Festival na Italy na Montreux Jazz Festival na 1990, na afọ anọ ka e mesịrị, o mechara rụkọọ ọrụ na Horace Silver, onye ọ na-amasị ogologo oge, na weputara album Love na Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver.  Emekwara na San Francisco Jazz Festival (1996).  Ndekọ ụtụ ya na 1997 Dear Ella meriri ya na 1998 Grammy Award maka Best Jazz Vocal Album, na 1998 album Live na Yoshi's nwekwara uru nhọpụta Grammy.  Emere ọzọ na Monterey Jazz Festival (1998).  Ọ nyochawokwa na This Is New (2002) egwu Kurt Weill, na, na album ya na-esote J'ai deux amours (2005), French Classics.

Her album *Red Earth*, released in 2007, features Africa-inspired themes and contributions by numerous musicians from Mali. Performed at the San Francisco Jazz Festival (2007). On December 8, 2007, she performed with the Terence Blanchard Quintet at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. She tours frequently, including overseas gigs around the world. October 16, 2009 found her opening the Shanghai JZ Jazz Festival, in which she sang tunes associated with Ella Fitzgerald, along with Ellington compositions and other jazz standards.

Bridgewater is the mother to three children, Tulani Bridgewater (from her marriage to Cecil Bridgewater), China Moses (from her marriage to theater, film and television director Gilbert Moses) and Gabriel Durand (from her last marriage to French concert promoter Jean-Marie Durand). Her eldest daughter, Tulani Bridgewater, attended the Mirman School for Gifted Children in Los Angeles, CA. She went on to graduate from the Ecole Active Bilingue in Paris, France at age 16, going on to graduate from Vassar College.  She serves as Bridgewater's manager under her firm Bridgewater Artists Management and runs Bridgewater's production company and record label (DDB Productions, Inc. And DDB Records).  Daughter China Moses is an accomplished singer, songwriter, producer, radio host and MTV VJ (France). Her critically acclaimed albums have earned her an international reputation as heir to Bridgewater's legacy. Moses tours worldwide, occasionally sharing the bill with Bridgewater.
 
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