- Salome Bey
Salome Bey, CM is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and composer who has lived in
Toronto, Ontario since 1966.In 2005, she was made an honorary Member of the
Order of Canada . [ [http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=4898 Salome Bey invested as Honorary Member of the Order of Canada ] ]She formed a vocal group with her brother and sister known as Andy and the Bey Sisters, performing in local clubs and touring North America and
Europe . She first came toToronto in 1964 and played the jazz club circuit. She was known as "Canada's First Lady of Blues". She appeared on Broadway in "Your Arms Too Short to Box with God " (for which she earned a Grammy nomination for work on cast album). She put together a blues & jazz cabaret show on the history of black music, "Indigo" (Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding performance), later taped for TV networks.She recorded two (2) albums with
Horace Silver , made live albums of her performances with theMontreal Jubilation Choir land at the Montreaux Jazz Festival.She received the Toronto Arts Award for her contributions to the performing arts in 1992 and theMartin Luther King Jr. Award for lifetime achievement from the Black Theatre Workshop of Montreal in 1996.Family
She married Howard Berkeley Matthews on
April 7 1964 ; they have 3 children.References
External links
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