Lorraine Feather
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Background information | |
Birth name | Billie Jane Lee Lorraine Feather |
Born | Manhattan, New York, U.S. | September 10, 1948
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Singer, lyricist, songwriter |
Instrument(s) | Vocals |
Years active | 1967–present |
Labels | Concord Jazz, Sanctuary, Rhombus, Jazzed Media |
Website | lorrainefeather |
Lorraine Feather (born Billie Jane Lee Lorraine Feather; September 10, 1948) is an American singer, lyricist, and songwriter.
Early life
A native of Manhattan, she was born to jazz writer Leonard Feather and his wife Jane, a former big band singer. She was named Billie Jane Lee Lorraine for her godmother Billie Holiday, her mother's former roommate Peggy Lee, and for the song "Sweet Lorraine".
Three of her albums have been nominated for Grammy Awards in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category: Ages (2010), Attachments (2013), and Flirting with Disaster (2015).
Discography
- Joanne Grauer Introducing Lorraine Feather (MPS, 1978)
- Sweet Lorraine (Concord Jazz, 1978)
- The Body Remembers (Bean Bag, 1996)
- New York City Drag (Rhombus, 2000)
- Such Sweet Thunder (Sanctuary, 2003)
- Cafe Society (Sanctuary, 2003)
- Dooji Wooji (Sanctuary, 2005)
- Language (Jazzed Media, 2008)
- Ages (Jazzed Media, 2010)
- Tales of the Unusual (Jazzed Media, 2012)
- Attachments (Jazzed Media, 2013)
- Flirting with Disaster (Jazzed Media, 2015)
- Math Camp (Relarion, 2018)
- Living people
- 1948 births
- 21st-century American Jews
- 21st-century American women
- American jazz singers
- American people of English-Jewish descent
- American pop musicians
- American women jazz singers
- American women singer-songwriters
- Concord Records artists
- Jazz musicians from New York (state)
- Jewish American musicians
- Jewish American songwriters
- Jewish women singers
- Musicians from Manhattan
- Sanctuary Records artists
- Singer-songwriters from New York (state)