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Teri Thornton (Shirley Enid Avery) was born on 1 September, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., is an American jazz singer. Discover Teri Thornton'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 65 years old?

Popular As Shirley Enid Avery
Occupation Singer
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 1 September, 1934
Birthday 1 September
Birthplace Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Date of death 2 May, 2000
Died Place Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1934

Teri Thornton, born Shirley Enid Avery (September 1, 1934 – May 2, 2000) was an American jazz singer.

1950

Thornton first performed in local Detroit clubs in the 1950s.

1960

She moved to New York City in the 1960s, where she found work singing for television advertisements, and recorded for several different labels.

Late in the 1960s Thornton faded from public view, and only decades later was discovered to have been singing on various song poem records in Los Angeles on the Preview label as "Teri Summers."

1983

She played clubs in New York after moving back there from Los Angeles in 1983, and in the 1990s she fully revived her career.

She was a resident of the Actors' Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey.

1998

In 1998, she won the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Vocal Competition in Washington, DC.

(Singers Jane Monheit, Tierney Sutton and Roberta Gambarini were runners-up in the same competition.) Thornton signed with Verve, which released I'll Be Easy to Find.

2000

That same year, she was diagnosed with bladder cancer and died of the disease in 2000.