Barbara Morrison

Barbara Morrison ( born September 10, 1952 in Ypsilanti ( Michigan)) is an American blues, rhythm and blues and jazz singer.

Morrison grew up in a suburb of Detroit; her father was a doo-wop singer. In 1973, she moved to Los Angeles, where she worked with Eddie Cleanhead Vinson and in the Johnny Otis Show. With Otis, the single Hey Boy was! I Want Ya '/ nigger, Please!. Since then she has participated in 20 albums under his own name and as Gastvokalistin with; In 1992, her debut album Doin ' Alright. She has performed among others at festivals in Montreux, Monterey, Long Beach, the North Sea Jazz Festival and at Carnegie Hall as well as in Europe, but especially in the Southern California club scene. She stepped inter alia with Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Smith, Dr. John, the Count Basie Orchestra, Lafayette Harris, Terry Gibbs, Thilo Berg Big Band and the Doc Severinsen Big Band on. In 1999 she received the Monterey Bay Blues Festival Award.