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Cassandra Wilson, the Grammy-winning jazz singer and pivotal M-Base figure, died at age 70 in Jackson, Mississippi; the cause was not disclosed. She won Grammys for Best Jazz Vocal Performance in 1997 for New Moon Daughter and Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2009 for Loverly, was named Time’s America’s Best Singer in 2001, and released her final solo album Coming Forth by Day in 2015 as an homage to Billie Holiday.
Cassandra Wilson, a two-time Grammy-winning jazz vocalist known for blending jazz with pop and for inventive reimaginings of standards, has died at 70. A Mississippi native who helped launch the M-Base movement in New York, she released landmark albums including Blue Light 'til Dawn (1992) and New Moon Daughter (1995), won Grammys for New Moon Daughter (1997) and Loverly (2009), and collaborated with the Roots, Angelique Kidjo, Wynton Marsalis and many others; her death was confirmed by her manager, with no cause disclosed.