Little jimmy scott biography

1925—

Jazz and rhythm-and-blues singer

A jazz and rhythm-and-blues (R&B) singer with a distinctive high-pitched voice, Jimmy Scott is admired by singing stars as diverse as Madonna and Lou Reed.

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His heyday was the 1950s and 1960s, when he was known among jazz fans as a vocalist with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, and his most acclaimed album is 1962's Falling in Love Is Wonderful, which he made with Ray Charles.

His pretty, girlish voice was well suited to the sad, lonely songs that were his specialty in the 1960s and he was a major influence on singers like Charles, Marvin Gaye, and Nancy Wilson. Though his career faltered in the 1970s and 1980s, Scott made a highly successful comeback in the 1990s.

Since then he has recorded several albums and performs to sellout audiences. Madonna has been reported as saying that "Jimmy Scott is the only singer who makes me cry."

James Victor Scott was born on July 17, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, on