I don’t consider myself a jazz singer… I’m a singer of songs,” said the vocal star, who won a Grammy in the Best Female Jazz Vocal Performance category.

Cleo Laine, who was married to and performed with fellow jazz musician John Dankworth, has died, according to the U.K. music venue they'd founded.

A Briton with a smoky voice, she recorded albums across six decades, toured the world and acted in “Edwin Drood.”