Classic jazz singer and worker for humanitarian causes.
Before Fame
She won a talent competition held by the TV station WTVN.
Trivia Fact
She is an American singer with seventy albums, three Grammys, and some famous hits such as Sweet Nancy, The Baby, and Fancy Miss Nancy.
Family Life:
She got married to drummer Kenny Dennis in 1960 and the pair divorced ten years later, and then she got married a second time to Reverend Wiley Burton in 1973.