Bonnie Lee

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There are more than one artist with that name, Two of them are mentioned below: 1.) Bonnie Lee (June 11, 1931 – September 7, 2006) was an American Chicago blues singer known as "The Sweetheart of the Blues". She is best remembered for her lengthy working relationships with Sunnyland Slim and Willie Kent. David Whiteis, who interviewed Lee in researching his book Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories, stated, "she was one of the last of her genre, the big-voiced woman blues singer fronting a Chicago band." Biography: She was born Jessie Lee Frealls in Bunkie, Louisiana, and raised in Beaumont, Texas. She learned to play the piano as a child. Her mother refused to let her join the gospel singer Lillian Glinn on tour. She later toured with the Famous Georgia Minstrels, meeting Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Big Mama Thornton. In 1958 she moved to Chicago and chose the stage name Bonnie Lee, working as both a dancer and singer. Two years later she signed a recording contract with J. Mayo Williams's Ebony Records. Williams insisted on billing her as Bonnie "Bombshell" Lane on her first single, "Sad and Evil Woman". She disliked the name. After the single failed to sell, she returned to Chicago jazz and blues nightclubs. She was later billed as Bonnie Lee Murray, using the surname of her husband at the time. In 1967 Lee first appeared on a bill with the pianist Sunnyland Slim, and their working arrangement included residencies at several Chicago clubs. At the end of the 1970s,

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Sweetheart of the Blues

I'm Good

Hooked On Blues

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Don't Think That I May Never Go b/w I Held Baby

The Sun Is Gonna Shine

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Women of Blue Chicago

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Rollin' & Tumblin' - Mestres do Blues

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Blues With The Girls

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Chicago Blues Session Vol 7 - I'm Good

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I'm Good: Chicago Blues Session, Vol. 7

Acoustic Blue Chicago

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