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Ernestine Anderson (Ernestine Irene Anderson) was born on 11 November, 1928 in Houston, Texas, U.S., is an American jazz and blues singer. Discover Ernestine Anderson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

Popular As Ernestine Irene Anderson
Occupation Singer
Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 11 November 1928
Birthday 11 November
Birthplace Houston, Texas, U.S.
Date of death 2016
Died Place Shoreline, Washington, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1928

Ernestine Anderson (November 11, 1928 – March 10, 2016) was an American jazz and blues singer.

In a career spanning more than six decades, she recorded over 30 albums.

She was nominated four times for a Grammy Award.

She sang at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival (six times over a 33-year span), as well as at jazz festivals all over the world.

Ernestine Irene Anderson (and her twin sister Josephine) were born in Houston, Texas, on November 11, 1928.

Her mother, Erma, was a housewife, and her father, Joseph, a construction worker who sang bass in a gospel quartet.

By the age of three, Anderson showed a talent for singing along with her parents' old blues 78 rpm records by the likes of Bessie "The Empress Of the Blues" Smith.

Anderson started singing at a local church, singing solos in its gospel choir.

1944

Her family moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1944, when she was 16.

1946

Anderson attended Garfield High School, graduating in 1946.

While a teenager, she was discovered by bandleader "Bumps" Blackwell, who hired her as a singer for his Junior Band.

Anderson's first show was at the Washington Social Club on East Madison Street.

The band (which later included Quincy Jones on trumpet, and a young Ray Charles on keyboard) performed regularly in jazz clubs on Seattle's Jackson Street.

When she was 18, Anderson left Seattle, to tour for a year with the Johnny Otis band.

1952

In 1952, she went on tour with Lionel Hampton's orchestra.

After a year with the band, she settled in New York City, determined to make her way as a singer.

1955

Her appearance on Gigi Gryce's 1955 album Nica's Tempo (Savoy) led to a partnership with trumpeter Rolf Ericson for a three-month Scandinavian tour.

1958

Ernestine's first album in the United States was made after her debut album, recorded in Sweden and released here by Mercury Records under the title Hot Cargo (1958).

The dean of America jazz critics, Ralph J. Gleason, began airing it on his hit-making radio show.

In addition his nationally distributed San Francisco Chronicle jazz column, saying: "she is the best new jazz singer in a decade. She has good diction, time, an uncanny ability to phrase well, great warmth in her voice, a true tone and, on top of all that, she swings like mad", which created a huge sensation.

Ernestine Anderson was featured in an article in Time magazine, August 4, 1958: "the voice belongs to Negro Singer Ernestine Anderson, at 29 perhaps the best-kept jazz secret in the land" after her first album release.

She is inevitably compared to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday.

Ernestine invariably rejects the comparisons.

"I wish," she says, "they would let me be just me."

1959

In 1959 Anderson won the DownBeat "New Star" Award and recorded for Mercury to more acclaim, before dividing her time from the mid-1960s between America and Europe.

1970

Her re-emergence in the mid-1970s (at which time Ray Brown was her manager) came as a result of a sensational appearance at the 1976 Concord Jazz Festival.

A string of albums for Concord Records followed.

The next 17 years sealed Anderson's reputation as a top-tier jazz and blues singer.

1981

She performed headlining shows far and wide and recorded almost 20 albums for Concord, two of which—1981's Never Make Your Move Too Soon and 1983's Big City—earned Grammy Award Best Jazz Vocal Performance nominations.

1988

In the years that followed Anderson toured widely—a triumphant series of dates in Japan led to the release of a four-disc live set in 1988—and that same year she made her debut at Carnegie Hall.

1990

In the early 1990s she joined Qwest Records, the label founded by fellow Garfield High School graduate Quincy Jones.

By the late 1990s, she was signed to the Koch International label, which issued her Isn't It Romantic album, in 2003 her High Note label CD, Love Makes the Changes was a breakout hit, and her 2004 JVC CD, Hello Like Before, brought further accolades.

Ernestine Anderson was a follower of Nichiren Buddhism.

1993

After leaving Concord Records in 1993, Anderson signed on with her old Seattle jazz scene pal, Quincy Jones, and his happening new label, Qwest, which issued two albums—1993's Now and Then, and 1996's Blues, Dues & Love News—that also both received Grammy nominations.

1998

Anderson tells of her early life in the 1998 book The Jazz Scene:

1999

In addition, Anderson has performed at the Hollywood Bowl, at the Women In Jazz event at the Kennedy Center in 1999, at Monterey (1959, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1990, 2007), and at numerous other jazz festivals from New Orleans to Brazil, Berlin, Austria, and all around the globe.

Anderson was one of 75 women chosen for the book, I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America (1999), by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Brian Lanker.

Within this book Ernestine Anderson joins such company as Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Oprah Winfrey, Lena Horne, and Sarah Vaughan.

2014

Ernestine Anderson's great-grandson, Dwone Anderson-Young, was murdered on June 1, 2014.

2016

She died peacefully, surrounded by her family in Shoreline, Washington, on March 10, 2016, at the age of 87.