Jacqui Dankworth

Jazz vocalist Jacqui Dankworth is a versatile figure who has also been active in classical music, folk, blues, soul, and other genres. She is also a songwriter and had a successful career as an actress in her youth. Jacqueline Caryl Dankworth was born on February 5, 1963, in Northampton in England's East Midlands. Her parents were jazz singer Cleo Laine and her husband and music director, John Dankworth, a composer, clarinetist, and saxophonist. After attending St. Christopher School in the Hertfordshire region, she went on to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London...