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Dame Cleo Laine, the ‘First Lady of Jazz’, dies aged 97

Jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine (PA) - (PA Archive)

Veteran jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, famed for her scat singing style, has died at the age of 97.

Nicknamed the First Lady of Jazz, she was a Grammy award-winning, leading figure of the British jazz music scene along with her late husband, saxophonist Sir John Dankworth, for many years and worked with the likes of Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra.

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