Barbara Lea

Barbara LeCoq (Detroit, April 10, 1929 - December 26, 2011), known as Barbara Lea, was an American jazz singer in the swing and dixieland style. It also features influences from Lee Wiley. Biography

He started singing while still attending school at various Detroit dance orchestras, and then with the faculty jazz orchestra, the Crimson Stompers, at Harvard. In the 1950s he worked on the East Coast of the United States and recorded for the Riverside (1955) and Prestige (1956-1957) labels, with the collaboration of musicians such as trumpeter Johnny Windhurst and pianists Billy Taylor and Dick Hyman . During the sixties, she worked as a supporting actress and gave classes. In the following decade, he sang with Dick Sudhalter and Ed Polcer. Already in the eighties recorded for the company Audiophile. Sources

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