Helen Watson

b. Manchester, England. An always competent, sometimes exhilarating interpreter of soul, jazz and blues songs, Helen Watson began her solo recording career in the late 80s with two albums of blues standards for EMI Records. Since then her albums have revealed shifts to and from a jazz and blues bedrock, but maintained an elegance and an intelligence which has ensured she continues to be heralded by both the jazz and blues cognoscenti. By the time she had moved to London at the age of nine, she had already succumbed to her father's record collection of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitz...