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Also Known As Dame Janet Abbott Baker
Born August 21, 1933 (age 91) • Hatfield • England
Awards And Honors Grammy Award (1977) • Grammy Award (1975)
Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn
British musician
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
British musician
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Marilyn Horne
Marilyn Horne
American opera singer
Bartoli, Cecilia
Cecilia Bartoli
Italian singer
Joan Sutherland
Joan Sutherland
Australian opera singer
Bryn Terfel
Bryn Terfel
Welsh singer
Sir Geraint Evans
Welsh singer
Dame Maggie Teyte
English singer
Detail of portrait of Charles Dibdin, oil on canvas, by Thomas Phillips, 1799; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Charles Dibdin
British composer, author, actor and manager
Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John
British-Australian actress and singer
Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr
British musician
Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart
British singer-songwriter
Sade on the album cover of Soldier of Love (2010).
Sade
British singer
Beecham, 1959
Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet
British conductor
Dame Cleo Laine singing at the Jazz at Lincoln Center concert “Here's to the Ladies: A Celebration of Great Women in Jazz,” New York City, November 17, 2003.
Cleo Laine
British singer
Vera Lynn
Vera Lynn
English singer
Delius, drawing by Edmond X. Kapp, 1932
Frederick Delius
English composer
Sir Henry J. Wood
British musician

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