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Jazz Musician of the Day: June Christy

Published: 2012-11-20
June Christy

All About Jazz is celebrating June Christy's birthday today!

June was born as Shirley Luster on November 20, 1925 at the Memorial Hospital in Springfield, Illinois and was raised from the age of three in Decatur, Illinois; and from the beginning always wanted to sing. She was singing with local bands when she was just 13, and later with society bands around Chicago, the big city 150 miles from Springfield, using the name Sharon Leslie. None of her family knew anything about music... Read more.

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