Artist's albums
Dark Divas: The Musical
2000 · album
Seasons of Love
1997 · album
You Must Believe in Swing
1996 · album
I Thought About You
1994 · album
The Musicals: Jazz on Broadway
1992 · album
Deep Song
1989 · album
Deep Song (A Tribute To Billie Holiday)
1989 · album
Live at the Bijou
1984 · album
Because You Loved Me
2022 · album
Nature Boy
2022 · single
I'm Alive
2022 · single
Tale as Old as Time
2021 · single
A Christmas Day
2021 · album
What's Goin' On
2014 · album
Ranee Lives Upstairs
2009 · album
Just You, Just Me
2005 · album
Dark Divas: Highlights
2001 · album
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Biography
Although born and raised in Brooklyn, Ranee Lee has lived in Montreal for most of her adult life, and she is best-known for her fine recordings for the Canadian Justin Time label. Lee performed as a singer while in high school, toured the U.S. with a local group, and, after she moved to Canada, she starred in the play Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The influences of Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington can be felt at times in her singing, but Ranee Lee also has her own sound. A measure of her talent is that Milt Hinton and Oliver Jones performed on her first recording (Deep Song) and Red Mitchell was a major factor on her second (Jazz on Broadway). ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi