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Genre : Pop and Jazz
Latest Release : Vegas '58 – Today
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Keely Smith
Keely Smith is very noted and known singer of the pop and jazz music from United States of America. She has been in the musical scene from the 1950s and has now become a living legend whose fame have spread all over the world. Her contribution to the music has been unsarpassable and continues to do her bit even today. Keely still tours a lot and have a large fan base. For buying tickets for the live shows of Keely Smith contact Online Seats who sells tickets at less price for premium seats.
Born on 9th March, 1932 Keely Smith was extremely famous and successful in the 19650s and 1960s. She has worked with other pioneers of music such as Frank Sinatra and Louis Prima. Her singing style was very exquisite for which Keely earned lot of admiration. The birth name of Keely was Dorothy Jaqueline Keely and from a very young age she had showed the talent of a singer. At fourteen she was already inducted in a the Saxie Dowell led naval air station band. And when at fifteen Keely got a paying job when she found herself in the Earl Bennett band.
The year of 1949 was the year of professional debut for Keely Smith with her future husband and her singing partner Prima. Prima and Keely later recorded several duets. Some of the famous duets have been That Ol' Black Magic, Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen and others. The two were very famous at the lounge scene of Los Angeles in the 1950s.
In the 1950s Keely Smith released number of albums. In the 1956 an album of hers was released titled '1963 Live Guard Sessions' with as many as twenty two songs. Some of the superb track in the albums were Fly Me to the Moon, Crazy He Calls Me, Basically Blue, Royal Garden Blues, Introduction, Young at Heart, The Touch of Your Lips, Corner Pocket, Why Not?, Cherry Point, I Got Rhythm and more such great hits.
The some of the other albums of this period were 'Because You're Mine', 'I Wish You Love'. With these works the popularity of Keely Smith continued to rise and rise.
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Artist Biography - Keely Smith
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 However in 1961 Smith and Prima divorced. She signed with Reprise Records,while Nelson Riddle was her musical director. In the 1960 she released albums like 'Swing You Lovers', 'Be My Love'.
She then married producer Jimmy Bowen and for looking after the children she took a break. But in 1985 Keely staged a comeback through ' I'm In Love Again '. In the new millennium Keely released good albums like ' Swing, Swing, Swing' in 2002. The album which gave her a Grammy nomination was ' Keely sings Sinatra' which has twenty beautiful tracks such as Come Rain or Come Shine, Happy Birthday, Frank, Without a Song ,
My Way, South of the Border, Goodbye, Night and Day, Angel Eyes, New York, New York, It Was a Very Good Year and more such memorable songs.
A very critically and popularly acclaimed album was 'Keely Swings Basie Style with Strings' of 2002. a compilation album having all her popular songs was ' Vegas '58 -- Today ' contained all the live recorded songs.
Though Keely Smith is in her 70s but she continues to tour on the demand of her innumerable fans. She still has that lovely voice though which Keely has acquired so much fame and popularity. Don't miss the tours of one of the greatest singers of the yester years. For tickets contact Online Seats.
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