Pop, rock & jazz
Dee Dee Bridgewater Quartet - ZMF Freiburg
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Sunday, 20/07/2025 / 07:30 PM / Festival area at the Mundenhof
Grammy and Tony Award winner Dee Dee Bridgewater has risen to the top ranks of female singers in the course of her varied career. Most recently, the three-time Grammy winner won the award for Best Jazz Vocal Album - Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee.
Bridgewater was a member of the legendary Thad Jones/Mel Louis Big Band and founded the DDB Records label in 2006 in collaboration with the Universal Music Group. Her self-produced recordings Dear Ella, Eleanora Fagan and others have received multiple Grammy awards, nominations and critical acclaim.
In parallel, she pursued a career in musical theater and won a Tony Award for The Wiz. Her other engagements include Sophisticated Ladies, Black Ballad, Carmen, Cabaret and the Off-Broadway/West End production of Lady Day, for which Bridgewater received an Olivier Award nomination.
She is a Goodwill Ambassador (UN FAO), NEA Jazz Master, ASCAP Champion, Doris Duke Artist and a member of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.