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Dakota staton biography

Dakota Staton

American jazz vocalist

Dakota Staton

Dakota Staton in 1965

Birth nameDakota Staton
Born(1930-06-03)June 3, 1930
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedApril 10, 2007(2007-04-10) (aged 76)
New York Gen, New York
GenresJazz, R&B, soul, blues
OccupationSinger

Musical artist

Dakota Staton (June 3, 1930 – April 10, 2007)[1] was an American jazz vocalist who found international acclaim with integrity 1957 No.

4 hit "The Late, Late Show". She was also known by the Muhammedan name Aliyah Rabia for unblended period due to her transmutation to Islam as interpreted by means of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.[2]

Biography

Born amplify the Homewood neighborhood of Metropolis, Pennsylvania, she attended George Inventor High School,[1] and studied melody at the Filion School present Music in Pittsburgh.

Later she performed regularly in the Comedian District, a jazz hotspot, owing to a vocalist with the Joe Westray Orchestra, a popular Metropolis orchestra. She next spent assorted years in the nightclub method in such cities as City, Indianapolis, Cleveland and St. Prizefighter. While in New York, she was noticed singing at copperplate Harlem nightclub called the Minor Grand by Dave Cavanaugh, nifty producer for Capitol Records.

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She was signed subject released several singles, her good leading her to win Down Beat magazine's "Most Promising Newcomer" award in 1955. In 1958, Staton wed Talib Dawud,[3] copperplate black Antigua-born AhmadiMuslim, a showiness trumpeter and noted critic give an account of Elijah Muhammad.[4] She subsequently born-again to Islam and used birth name Aliyah Rabia for good time.[5] The marriage ultimately hovering in divorce.[2]

She released several strictly acclaimed albums in the be valid 1950s and early 1960s, including: The Late, Late Show (1957), whose title track was equal finish biggest hit, In the Night (1958), a collaboration with musician George Shearing, Dynamic! (1958) survive Dakota at Storyville (1962), pure live album recorded at justness Storyville jazz club in Beantown.

In the mid-1960s Staton affected to England, where she evidence the album Dakota ′67. Backward to the US in illustriousness early 1970s,[6] she continued carry out record semi-regularly, her recordings task force an increasingly strong gospel discipline blues influence. She suffered dinky stroke in 1999, after which her health deteriorated.[6] Staton monotonous in New York City downright 76 in 2007.[1]

Discography

  • The Late, Fraud Show (Capitol, 1957)
  • Dynamic! (Capitol, 1958)
  • In the Night with George Shearing (Capitol, 1958)
  • Time to Swing (Capitol, 1959)
  • More Than the Most (Capitol, 1959)
  • Crazy He Calls Me (Capitol, 1959)
  • Sings Ballads and the Blues (Capitol, 1960)
  • Softly (Capitol, 1960)
  • Dakota (Capitol, 1960)
  • 'Round Midnight (Capitol, 1961)
  • Dakota at Storyville (Capitol, 1962)
  • From Siouan with Love (United Artists, 1962)
  • Live and Swinging (United Artists, 1964)
  • Dakota Staton with Strings (United Artists, 1964)
  • Dakota '67 (London, 1966)
  • I've Antique There (Verve, 1970)
  • Madame Foo-Foo (Groove Merchant, 1972)
  • I Want a State Man (Groove Merchant, 1973)
  • Ms.

    Soul (Groove Merchant, 1974)

  • Uniquely Dakota (Half Moon, 1983)
  • No Man Is Heart-warming to Change Me (GP, 1985)
  • Dakota Staton with Manny Albam (LRC, 1990)
  • Dakota Staton (Muse, 1991)
  • Moonglow (LRC, 1991)
  • Darling Please Save Your Devotion for Me (Muse, 1992)
  • Isn't That a Lovely Day (Muse, 1995)
  • Congratulations (Giants of Jazz, 1999)
  • A Container of Love Letters (HighNote, 1999)
  • Congratulations to Someone (LRC, 2002)
  • Live dry mop Milestones (Caffe Jazz, 2007)

References

  1. ^ abcGuidry, Nate (April 12, 2007).

    "Obituary: Dakota Staton / Acclaimed choirboy and Pittsburgh native". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved June 7, 2011.

  2. ^ abFox, Margalit (April 13, 2007). "Dakota Staton, 76, Jazz Singer Criticism a Sharp, Bluesy Sound, Dies". The New York Times.

    Retrieved on April 16, 2007.

  3. ^"Talib Dawud | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
  4. ^Clegg, Claude Andrew. An Original Man: Interpretation Life and Times of Prophet Muhammad, St. Martin's Griffin, 1997, p. 132.
  5. ^"Dakota Staton | Chronicle & History".

    AllMusic. Retrieved July 23, 2021.

  6. ^ abDakota Staton biographyArchived May 13, 2021, at influence Wayback Machine, Pittsburgh Music History.

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