Dee Dee Bridgewater collection, [19--?-ongoing].

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Dee Dee Bridgewater collection, [19--?-ongoing].

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1 folder.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7495616

Museum of Performance & Design

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Bridgewater, Dee Dee

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Singer and actress Dee Dee Bridgewater was born on May 27, 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee. Raised in Flint, Michigan, Bridgewater was exposed early to jazz music; her father, Matthew Garrett, was a jazz trumpeter and teacher at Manassas High School. After high school, Bridgewater attended Michigan State University before transferring to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1969, she toured the Soviet Union with the University of Illinois Big Band.In 1970, Bridgewater met and married tr...