Cassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, has died - AP News
Renowned jazz singer and two-time Grammy winner Cassandra Wilson has passed away at the age of 70 in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. Known for her genre-bending contralto voice, she was celebrated for blending jazz with folk, pop, and blues influences.
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Wilson was a transformative figure in modern jazz, recognized by Time magazine as America's best singer in 2001 for her unique vocal style.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Cassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer has died. She was 70.
Dubbed America’s best singer by Time magazine in 2001, Wilson was best known for her genre-bending voice, which expanded the boundaries of traditional blues-based jazz and worked effortlessly across folk, pop, R&B, country and beyond. At the heart of all her work was her idiosyncratic contralto, a soulful sound distinctly tied to her roots.
As Jon Batiste put it in a eulogy on Wednesday, Wilson sounded like the South.
She died in her native Jackson, Mississippi, on Tuesday morning, the Hinds County Coroner Jeramiah Howard confirmed.
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