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Interview: Sheila Jordan (Part 3)

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Marc Myers
Jan 06, 2012
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Sheila Jordan isn't a trained singer. But she is a passionate singer whose roots date back to Charlie Parker and other bebop musicians of the late '40s and early '50s whom she knew as a teen and asked her to sit in. Sheila also is an example of an artist who had a very rough early life but used her love for music as a way to keep her spirits high and po…

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