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Name
  
Virtue Whitted

Role
  
Singer

Children
  
Pharez Whitted


Died
  
January 17, 2007, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Virtue Hampton Whitted (February 22, 1922, Middletown, Ohio – January 17, 2007, Indianapolis, Indiana) was a jazz singer and bassist.

In 1938 she moved to Indianapolis, Indiana and later formed the Hampton Sisters with her two sisters. She became a major figure in Indianapolis's jazz community and the Hampton Sisters were inducted into the Indianapolis Jazz hall of fame in 1999.

She died January 17, 2007 in Indianapolis, Indiana, aged 84, one week after suffering a stroke. She was the mother of jazz trumpeter Pharez Whitted and the sister of trombonist Slide Hampton.

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