Welsa whitfield biography

  • Remembering Cabaret Star Wesla Whitfield - NPR
  • WESLA WHITFIELD discography (top albums) and reviews Wesla Whitfield (born Weslia Marie Edwards, September 15, 1947 – February 9, 2018) [1] was an American singer who recorded more than a score of albums and performed at Carnegie Hall and the White House, among other sites. She used a wheelchair for the last four decades of her life, after surviving a gunshot injury.
  • welsa whitfield biography4 Biography. Wesla Whitfield is a remarkable singer, with a deep love for that rich storehouse of musical treasures often identified as The Great American Popular Songbook.
  • Wesla Whitfield, elegant jazz and cabaret singer, dies at 70 Wesla Whitfield, a classically trained vocalist whose fresh interpretations of the Great American Songbook were anything but standard, died on Friday at her home in St. Helena, Calif. She was.
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    Wesla Whitfield (born Weslia Marie Edwards, September 15, – February 9, ) [1] was an American singer who recorded more than a score of albums and performed at Carnegie Hall and the White House, among other sites. She used a wheelchair for the last four decades of her life, after surviving a gunshot injury.
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    Biography. Wesla Whitfield is a remarkable singer, with a deep love for that rich storehouse of musical treasures often identified as The Great American Popular Songbook.

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    Wesla Whitfield, the supremely elegant Bay Area jazz and cabaret singer who devoted her abundant musical life to the Great American Songbook, died Friday at her home in St. Helena. The cause of.


  • Wesla Whitfield was an American singer who recorded more than a score of albums and performed at Carnegie Hall and the White House, among other sites.
  • Wesla Whitfield, the supremely elegant Bay Area jazz and cabaret singer who devoted her abundant musical life to the Great American Songbook, died Friday at her home in St. Helena. The cause of.
  • Wesla Whitfield was born in Santa Maria, California.
  • Wesla Whitfield, the opera singer turned cabaret singer celebrated for her treatment of songs from the Great American Songbook, died last Friday at age 70.

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      Wesla Whitfield, a singer of uncommon talent, taste, musicianship and courage, died yesterday in St. Helena, California. Her husband and accompanist of more than three decades, the pianist Mike Greensill, announced her passing.


    Remembering Cabaret Star Wesla Whitfield - NPR

  • Wesla Whitfield, the opera singer turned cabaret singer celebrated for her treatment of songs from the Great American Songbook, died last Friday at age
    1. Wesla Whitfield, elegant jazz and cabaret singer, dies at 70, carousel

    Singer Weslia Whitfield had just begun her career in music when she suffered a life-threatening injury in A random gunshot by two young men on a San Francisco street left her paralyzed from the waist down, but Whitfield continued to pursue her lifelong dream of being a professional singer.


    Wesla Whitfield, a classically trained vocalist whose fresh interpretations of the Great American Songbook were anything but standard, died on Friday at her. Singer Weslia Whitfield had just begun her career in music when she suffered a life-threatening injury in 1977. A random gunshot by two young men on a San Francisco street left her paralyzed from the waist down, but Whitfield continued to pursue her lifelong dream of being a professional singer.

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    Wesla Whitfield, who overcame partial paralysis to become a preeminent vocal stylist, winning acclaim for her interpretations of the Great American Songbook and acquiring a devoted following.