Jazz Legend Cassandra Wilson Dies at 70, Leaving a Boundless Voice Legacy
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Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, a two-time Grammy winner and NEA Jazz Master, died at age 70 at her home in Jackson, Mississippi. Time named her “America’s best singer” in 2001, and she won Grammys for New Moon Daughter (1997) and Loverly (2009). In 2022 she was honored as an NEA Jazz Master. Tributes from peers like Jon Batiste celebrated her Mississippi roots and genre-spanning voice that broadened blues-based jazz across folk, pop, R&B and beyond.
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