Born Clementine Dinah Bullock on October 28, 1927 in Southall (Middlesex,
England), Cleo Laine was a British jazz and pop singer. Noted for her
distinctive, scat singing style, her four octave range and vocal versatility,
Cleo Laine is probably Britain's most successful jazz singer of all time. Feted
by royalty and respected and admired right across the music fraternity, her fame
grew out of humble beginnings near London, where she was raised by her mother, a
farmer's daughter, and her father, a Jamaican labourer who liked to moonlight as
a busker. She took singing and dancing le...