Ernestine Anderson
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Ernestine Anderson (born November 11, 1928, in Houston, Texas) is an American jazz and blues singer. She has been recording for half a century, her most recent album coming in 2003.
In her early days out of Seattle, she sang vocals for Johnny Otis and Lionel Hampton. In 1958, her first solo album, Hot Cargo on Mercury Records, got her named "Best New Vocal Star" in Down Beat magazine in 1959. She recorded more than 20 albums for Mercury and Concord Records. In the early 1980s, she received two Grammy nominations. In the early 1990s she joined Qwest Records, the label of fellow Garfield High School grad Quincy Jones. Her most recent album, Love Makes the Changes, came out in 2003.
