| LC control no. | no 98016334 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Parris, Rebecca |
| Variant(s) | MacCloskey, Ruth Blair |
| Located | Newton (Mass.) Duxbury (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1951-12-28 |
| Death date | 2018-06-17 |
| Place of birth | Needham (Mass.) |
| Place of death | South Yarmouth (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Jazz vocals |
| Profession or occupation | Jazz singers |
| Special note | Machine-derived authority record. |
| Found in | LCCN 92-759381: Love comes and goes, p1991 Rebecca Parris WWW site, Jan. 5, 2007 (Rebecca Parris; b. Dec. 28, 1951, Newton, Mass.) New York times WWW site, viewed June 26, 2018 (in obituary published June 22: Rebecca Parris; b. Ruth Blair MacCloskey, Dec. 28, 1951, Needham, Mass.; grew up in Newton, Mass.; took the stage name Rebecca Parris in the 1980s (the last name was inspired by the Cole Porter standard "I love Paris); d. June 17, South Yarmouth, Mass., aged 66; lived in Duxbury, Mass.; husky-voiced jazz singer known for both her blistering scat runs and her deeply affecting interpretations of ballads) |
| Associated language | eng |
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