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Portrait of Joya Sherrill (Podcast #20-006)
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“[Joya] did such a good job on “I’m Beginning to See the Light” that we have been playing it ever since. It is a tribute to her diction and articulation, too, that when I ask them to join in singing it with us, audiences all over the world seem to know the words.”
– Duke Ellington, Music is my Mistress
Joya Sherrill
[20 August 1924 – 28 June 2010]
Joya Sherrill and Duke Ellington on the cover of the November 1945 issue of Metronome magazine. (With thanks to David…
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