(1-19 of 19 song lyrics)Average rating for Betty Carter songs is 7.24/10 [255 votes]. Selected popular Betty Carter song of Thursday, November 21 2024 is "You Go To My Head".
Top Betty Carter Albums
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In Person [2024]
Betty Carter At Her Best [2021]
The Music Never Stops [2019]
Give the Love Around [2014]
Round Midnight + out There with Betty Carter (Bonus Track Version) [2013]
Betty Carter (1929–1998) was a prominent U.S. jazz singer, renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style. Carter expanded the role of the vocalist in jazz, to a full, improvising member of the band. Although her voice was not as admired by the public as such vocalists as Sarah Vaughan or Ella Fitzgerald, many consider her to have exercised mastery of the human voice previously unheard in jazz. Carmen McRae once claimed that "there's really only one jazz singer - only one: Betty Carter."Carter was born Lillie Mae Jones on 16th May 1929 in Flint, Michigan and grew up in Detroit, where her father led a church choir. She studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory. She won a talent contest a... read more