'Fresh Air' marks the centennial of the 'Queen of Blues' Dinah Washington

NPR | By Kevin Whitehead

Published August 29, 2024 at 10:16 AM EDT

Washington, who died in 1963, was born in Alabama and got her start singing in church. Throughout her relatively short, two-decade career, she boasted — and proved — that she could sing anything.

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Kevin Whitehead is the jazz historian on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

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