Cleo Laine, considered by many to be the U.K.’s preeminent jazz singer, and an accomplished theater actress in her home country as well as on Broadway, died Thursday at age 97.
The death was announced by leading figures in the Stables, a British arts center that Laine founded with her late husband, the musician and composer John Dankworth, in Buckinghamshire. No cause of death was given.
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“Dame Cleo” was described as “the most recognizable British jazz singer in history” in an obituary from the BBC, which additionally noted, “One critic said that she was one of Britain’s two great contributions to jazz
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