Sylvia Syms (singer)

Sylvia Syms ( born December 2, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York City; † 10 May 1992, New York City; actually Sylvia Blagman ) was an American jazz singer.

Life

Syms grew into after recovering from polio in the jazz scene in Brooklyn, where she was supported by Billie Holiday, befriended Benny Carter and Art Tatum and 1941 made ​​her debut as a singer. Since the late forties they also took roles in various musicals. At times, she was under contract with the record company Decca; in addition, she worked for several smaller labels.

Home, especially on smaller stages and in jazz clubs along the East Coast, they matured in the following decades as one of the most prominent white jazz singers in the United States. Her most famous interpretations include I Could Have Danced All Night, Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry And Fun To Be Fooled.

To Syms ' friends and admirers was Frank Sinatra, who repeatedly declared the " world's best saloon singer " called and gave her because of her plump figure nicknamed Buddha. In 1982, Sinatra orchestra conducting for their joint album Syms By Sinatra, arranged and produced by Sinatra Hausarrangeur Don Costa.

Syms stood up in their last days of life into the stage. She died during a concert at New York's Algonquin Hotel of a heart attack.

Discography (selection)

• Songs By Sylvia Syms (1955 )
• Sylvia Syms Sings (1956 )
• Sylvia Is ( 1965)
• For Once In My Life (1967 )
• Syms By Sinatra (1982, with Frank Sinatra )
• You Must Believe In Spring: The Words of Alan & Marilyn Bergman (1991 )