Barbara Dane, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Barbara Dane

American singer

Date of Birth: 12-May-1927

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Profession: singer, television actor, jazz musician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Barbara Dane (born May 12, 1927) is an American folk, blues, and jazz singer.
She co-founded Paredon Records with Irwin Silber. "Bessie Smith in stereo," wrote jazz critic Leonard Feather in the late 1950s.
Time wrote of Dane: "The voice is pure, rich ...
rare as a 20 carat diamond" and quoted Louis Armstrong's exclamation upon hearing her at the Pasadena jazz festival: "Did you get that chick? She's a gasser!" On the occasion of her 85th birthday, Boston Globe music critic James Reed called her "one of the true unsung heroes of American music."