Posts tagged "kay davis"
Kay Davis, sang with Duke Ellington for six years in the 1940s. Best known for Creole Love Call, the lyric soprano with a bachelor’s and master’s degree (1943) from Northwestern University, will turn 91 on December 5, 2011. This 2009 interview with her is a treasure.
Duke Ellington and his singers Joya Sherrill, Kay Davis and Maria Ellington (no relation - later Mrs. Nat King Cole, mother of Natalie and niece of Charlotte Hawkins Brown).
