Dakota Staton was a high respected jazz and blues singer known during the 1950s for her bright trumpetlike sound and sassy style. Staton was born in Pittsburgh on June 3, 1930, and began singing and dancing as a child. By the time she was 18, she was singing in nightclubs in Detroit and other Midwestern […]

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