Jul 09
Joya Sherrill Dies
Posted by Slobokan @ 17:39 · 102 words · print
Joya Sherrill, who sang with Duke Ellington as a teenager, toured the Soviet Union with Benny Goodman and was one of the first African-American performers to host a children’s television show, died on June 28 at her home in Great Neck, N.Y. She was 85.
Her death was confirmed by her son, Richard Guilmenot III, who said she had been suffering from leukemia.
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Mr. Guilmenot died in 1989. In addition to her son, of Great Neck, she is survived by a daughter, Alice Richelle Guilmenot LeNoir, of Manhattan; a sister, Alice Kinnebrew of Atlanta; and two grandchildren.
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