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Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth DBE (born Clementina Dinah Campbell in Southall, Middlesex, on 28 October 1927; died 24 July 2025) was a jazz singer and an actor remembered for her scat singing (a form of vocal improvisation) and for being the only person to have received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular and classical music awards. Among her many awards were a Lifetime Achievement Award from the U.S. recording industry in 1991, a Jazz Lifetime Achievement Silver Medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians in 1998

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Discography

  • If We Lived on the Top of a Mountain / Portrait

    If We Lived on the Top of a Mountain / Portrait

    Album2016
  • The Essential Early Recordings

    The Essential Early Recordings

    Album2016
  • Three Early LPs and More

    Three Early LPs and More

    Album2008
  • Quality Time

    Quality Time

    Album2002
  • The Collection

    The Collection

    Album2002
  • Cleo Laine Christmas at the Stables

    Cleo Laine Christmas at the Stables

    Album1999
  • The Collection

    The Collection

    Album1998
  • The Very Best of Cleo Laine

    The Very Best of Cleo Laine

    Album1997
  • Solitude

    Solitude

    Album1995
  • A Beautiful Thing

    A Beautiful Thing

    Album1994
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