The Resume

(December 4, 1955- )
Born in Jackson, Mississippi
Jazz vocalist
Graduated Jackson State University
Recorded albums 'Point of View' (1985), 'Days Aweigh' (1987), 'Blue Skies' (1988), 'Jumpworld' (1989), 'She Who Weeps' (1990), 'Live' (1991), 'After the Beginning Again' (1991), 'Dance to the Drums Again' (1992), 'Blue Light 'Til Dawn' (1993), 'New Moon Daughter' (1995), 'Songbook' (1996), 'Rendezvous (with Jacky Terrasson)' (1998), 'Traveling Miles' (1999), 'Belly of the Sun' (2002), 'Sings Standards' (2002), 'Glamoured' (2003) and 'Thunderbird' (2006)
Recorded 'Death Letter,' 'Find Him,' 'Harvest Moon,' 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry,' 'Last Train To Clarksville,' 'A Little Warm Death,' 'Love Is Blindness,' 'Memphis,' 'Skylark,'Solomon Sang,' 'Strange Fruit' and 'Until'
Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album - New Moon Daughter (1996)
Acted in 'Junior' (1994) and 'The Score' (2001)

Why she might be annoying:

She told Pleasure Scene magazine: 'In the delta, people wear history on their faces. There's poverty, but with humanity and pride.'
She left New York to go back to Mississippi to do a blues album and then returned to New York.
She was a tomboy.
She sings depressing blues songs.

Why she might not be annoying:

At her junior high school talent show, she broke the mold of R&B performers by doing a jazz ballad.
She endured segregated schools until high school.
She joined with two whites to form a musical group despite the objection of fellow students who were against integration.
She takes pop songs and makes them jazzy.
She blends pop and rock into her jazz vocals.
She relocated to Harlem and then the trendy Soho area.
Time Magazine called her the 'most important and daring jazz vocalist' (1996).

Credit: bruce

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [December] (Ranked: 12041955)
• Ebony Magazine's 15 Most Beautiful Black Women of the Year [October 1996]
• Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance (Ranked: 1997)
• Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance (Ranked: 2009)
• I Covered ‘Killing Me Softly (With His Song)’
• Lilith Fair Performers [1997]
• Look at My Guitar
• Lycos' Top 10 Wilson Searches [January 2003] (Ranked: 10)
• My Name is Wilson
• New York Daily News' 100 Coolest New Yorkers [1994] (Ranked: 4)
• Profiles 20001-20250 (Ranked: 20070)
• Tomboys

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 12 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 30 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 18 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 43 Votes: 62.79% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 28 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 34 Votes: 55.88% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 61 Votes: 55.74% Annoying