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Lorraine Feather

Lorraine Feather

American singer-songwriter (born 1948)

Lorraine Feather (born Billie Jane Lee Lorraine Feather; September 10, 1948) is an American singer, lyricist, and songwriter.

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Early life

A native of Manhattan, she was born to jazz writer Leonard Feather and his wife Jane, a former big band singer. She was named Billie Jane Lee Lorraine for her godmother Billie Holiday, her mother's former roommate Peggy Lee, and for the song "Sweet Lorraine".[1]

Feather, Math Camp photo shoot—photo by Mikel Healey
Eddie Arkin and Feather, Math Camp photo shoot—photo by Mikel Healey

Three of her albums have been nominated for Grammy Awards in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category: Ages (2010), Attachments (2013), and Flirting with Disaster (2015).[2]

Discography

  • Joanne Grauer Introducing Lorraine Feather (MPS, 1978)
  • Sweet Lorraine (Concord Jazz, 1978)
  • The Body Remembers (Bean Bag, 1996)
  • New York City Drag (Rhombus, 2000)
  • Such Sweet Thunder (Sanctuary, 2003)
  • Cafe Society (Sanctuary, 2003)
  • Dooji Wooji (Sanctuary, 2005)
  • Language (Jazzed Media, 2008)
  • Ages (Jazzed Media, 2010)
  • Tales of the Unusual (Jazzed Media, 2012)
  • Attachments (Jazzed Media, 2013)
  • Flirting with Disaster (Jazzed Media, 2015)
  • Math Camp (Relarion, 2018)

References

  1. [1]
    Hamlin, Jesse (18 September 2006). "Billie Holiday's bio, 'Lady Sings the Blues,' may be full of lies, but it gets at jazz great's core". SFGate. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Grammy Award Results for Lorraine Feather". www.grammy.com. Retrieved March 8, 2020.
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