Yolande Bavan

Yolande Bavan ( born June 1, 1940 in Ceylon ) is a Sri Lankan native, American jazz singer and actress. She was from 1962 to 1964 a member of Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan.

Life

Yolande Bavan comes from Sri Lanka today and toured at the beginning of her career with Graeme Bell's band through Australia and Asia. She became famous when she replaced Annie Ross in the vocal group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Bavan made ​​three live albums with the ensemble, which changed its name now under the group name Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan. After appearances at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Jazz Club The Village Gate 1963 Bavan and Dave Lambert left the group the following year. In 1969 she took with Peter Ivers a joint album for Epic on, Knight of the Blue Communion. In the early Weather Report album from 1972 I Sing the Body Electric, she can be heard as a singer.

As early as 1963, she began a second career as an actress, as she was involved in an episode of the television series The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling. She subsequently appeared in various musicals and plays such as Salvation. As an actress she has appeared in feature films such as House of Bernarda Alba (1984 ), Parting Glances (1986 ), One True Thing (1998 ) The 13th Warrior (1999) and Cosmopolitan ( 2003).

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