Name Cheryl Bentyne | Role Singer | |
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Awards Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices Albums Songs Of Our Time, The Gershwin Songbook, Talk of the Town, Brasil, Vocalese Similar People Janis Siegel, Alan Paul, Tim Hauser, Laurel Masse, Rob Wasserman | ||
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Cheryl Bentyne (born January 17, 1954 in Mount Vernon, Washington) is a Grammy Award-winning singer and a member of the vocal quartet The Manhattan Transfer.
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- Cheryl bentyne let s do it wmv
- Cheryl bentyne everytime we say goodbye
- Early years
- The Manhattan Transfer
- Solo career
- Awards and honors
- Discography
- References
Cheryl bentyne everytime we say goodbye
Early years
Bentyne started singing at age thirteen with her father's Dixieland and swing band. Following graduation from Mount Vernon High School, she enrolled at Skagit Valley College and studied music and theater. She moved to Seattle in the mid 1970s and sang with John Holte's New Deal Rhythm Band. The NDRB trombonist Gary McKaig gave her an album by the Manhattan Transfer. After four years in Seattle, she moved to Los Angeles.
The Manhattan Transfer
In 1979, Bentyne became the permanent replacement for singer Laurel Massé, who left the group after being injured in an automobile accident. Her first appearance was on the album Extensions (1979), which won the group its first Grammy Award, Best Jazz Fusion Performance for a vocalese version of the song "Birdland" by Weather Report. Bentyne won ten Grammy Awards with the Manhattan Transfer, including awards for her arrangement of "Another Night in Tunisia" with Bobby McFerrin and for writing the song "Sassy" for the album The Offbeat of Avenues.
Solo career
Her debut solo album, Something Cool (Columbia, 1992), was produced by trumpeter Mark Isham and consisted of traditional pop and jazz standards. This was followed by Dreaming of Mister Porter (2000), a tribute to Cole Porter; Talk of the Town (2004) with Kenny Barron, David "Fathead" Newman, Chuck Mangione; and Let Me Off Uptown (2005), a tribute to Anita O'Day. While still a member of the Manhattan Transfer, she recorded the album Duets with bassist Rob Wasserman. In 1991, she collaborated with Isham on a song for the soundtrack to the movie Mortal Thoughts.
Bentyne left music in 2012 due to illness. Her spleen was removed and she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Margaret Dorn replaced her in the Manhattan Transfer. Within a year, a doctor told her she was free of cancer, and she returned to singing.
In 2014, she was a judge and mentor for the Songbook Academy, a summer program for high school students operated by the Great American Songbook Foundation founded by Michael Feinstein.
Awards and honors
Discography
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