Portrait of the artist: Dee Dee Bridgewater, jazz singer

'Ray Charles told me: You can always get another agent or manager – but you are the only Dee Dee Bridgewater'What got you started?At the age of seven, I announced to my father and mother that when I grew up I was going to be an "internationally known jazz singer". I don't know what possessed me – but it came true.What was your big breakthrough?Performing professionally for the first time in 1970 with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis big band. I was with them for four years, playing every M...

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