Artist: Diahann Carroll
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Accompanied By The Andre Previn Trio
Year: 1969
Tracks: 10
Nobody Sees Me Cry
Year: 1967
Tracks: 11
Actress and singer Diahann Carroll was natural Carol Diann Johnson on July 17, 1935, in the Bronx, NY. Beginning her music vocation at an former age, Carroll was the recipient of a Metropolitan Opera erudition for studies at New York's High School of Music and Art at a bare x years of age. While silent a teen, Carroll began on the job parttime as a role model, a TV actress, and as a night club isaac Bashevis Singer, star to her Broadway debut (the Harold Arlen/Truman Capote production House of Flowers) and her picture show debut (the modern version of Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast Carmen Jones) both in 1954. More picture show work came her way (including the 1959 celluloid version of Porgy & Bess), as well as a Tony Award in 1962 for her work on the Broadway production No Strings. Beginning in the late '50s, Carroll launched a successful recording calling, issuance albums on a unconstipated footing throughout the next deuce decades (including such titles as 1957's Diahann Carroll Sings Harold Arlen, 1960's Diahann Carroll and Andre Previn, and 1962's The Fabulous Diahann Carroll, among many others).
In the previous '60s, Carroll starred in the TV sitcom Julia, for which she was nominative for an Emmy Award and the recipient of a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. The '70s saw Carroll give arguably the finest playing performance of her vocation in 1974's Claudine, for which she was nominative for an Academy Award. Carroll would return to TV work in the mid-'80s with her personation of businesswoman Dominique Devereaux on the remove dark scoop opera Dynasty, piece she earned her second Emmy nomination for a guest appearing on the comedy series A Different World (also during the same decennary, Carroll published an autobiography, 1986's Diahann). In the '90s, Carroll starred in a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard and toured the U.S. performing greco-Roman Broadway standards in Almost Like Being in Love: The Lerner and Loewe Songbook. 2001 saw the release of the 16-track digest Nonentity Sees Me Cry: The Best of the Columbia Years.
