Teri Thornton [SEP] place of birth
Teri Thornton
Teri Thornton, born Shirley Enid Avery (September 1, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan – May 2, 2000 in Englewood, New Jersey) was an American jazz singer.
Thornton first performed in local Detroit clubs in the 1950s. She moved to New York City in the 1960s, where she found work singing for television advertisements, and recorded for several different labels. Late in the 1960s Thornton faded from public view, and only decades later was discovered to have been singing on various song poem records in
Fatool, Ole Jacob Hansen, Pat Flowers, Pete Minger, Randi Hultin, Roger Frampton, Rosa King, Si Zentner, Stanley Turrentine, Steve Allen, Sture Nordin, Svein Finnerud, Teri Thornton, Tito Puente, Vernel Fournier, Walter Benton, Willie Cook, and Wilson Simonal; birth of Lucciano Pizzichini.
1990s.
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