Toni Lynn Washington

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Birth name Dorothy Kearns Website Myspace page Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter Name Toni Washington		Years active 1980 – present Record label NorthernBlues Music Labels NorthernBlues

Born December 6, 1937 (age 86) Southern Pines, North Carolina, United States ( 1937-12-06 ) Role Singer · myspace.com/thetonilynnwashingtonband Albums Good Things, It's My Turn Now, Been So Long Genres Blues, Rhythm and blues, Jazz Similar People Duke Robillard, Darrell Nulisch, Sugar Ray Norcia, Jackopierce, Roomful of Blues Profiles Myspace

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Toni Lynn Washington (born Dorothy Kearns, December 6, 1937, Southern Pines, North Carolina) is an American blues singer.

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Musical career

She took to music at an early age, singing with her school and church choirs.

She has had seven Blues Music Award nominations. Washington received the 1999 Boston Blues Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2003 she released her fourth CD since 1997, and her first on the NorthernBlues label.

Albums

Blues at Midnight (1995, Tone-Cool Records, a Rounder Records subsidiary)

It's My Turn Now (1997, Tone-Cool Records)

Good Things (2000, Tone-Cool Records)

Been So Long (2003, NorthernBlues Music)

Main band members

Keyboards: Bruce Bears

Guitar: Duke Robillard, Kevin Belz, and Mike Null

Saxophone: Chuck Langford, Gordon Beadle, and Doug James

Trumpet: Scott Aruda

Drums: Dave Jamrog and Mark Texeira

Bass: Jesse Williams, Sven Larson and Steve Cuoco

Producers: Duke Robillard and Bruce Bears

Blues Music Award nominations

2003, 2004 and 2005 "Soul-Blues Female Performer of the Year"

Her previous albums for "Album of the Year"

References

Toni Lynn Washington Wikipedia

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