Annie Ross: Life of late jazz singer to go on display in Scottish exhibition
A COLLECTION from the estate of award-winning jazz singer and actress Annie Ross have been bequeathed to an archive in Scotland. The performance and personal items of the Hollywood star – who died four days before her 90th birthday last year – will be stored in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Archives and Collections. Among the collection is a 2010-dated letter from then US president Barack Obama, congratulating Ross on receiving the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master’s Award. Ross was born in London to Scottish vaudevillians Jack Short and Mary Dalziel and got ...
Source: thenational.scot