CHRIS CALLOWAY - YOU'RE SOMETHING ELSE

Chris Calloway, jazz singer and daughter of famous Cotton Club bandleader Cab Calloway.
She was born in Los Angeles on Sept. 21, 1945 and began her career on television, performing with her father 30 years ago on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Chris died of breast cancer at the age of 62 in 2008 after battling the cancer since 1987!.
In addition to touring widely, she went on to sing in a Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! that starred Cab Calloway and Pearl Bailey. She later portrayed jazz legend Billie Holiday in the Lanie Robertson play Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. Lady Day was produced in Santa Fe by the New Mexico Repertory Theater in 1993 and Santa Fe Stages in 1995.
In 2001, Santa Fe Stages produced Calloway's one-woman show, Clouds of Joy: The Spiritual Journey of Blanche Calloway, about her Aunt Blanche, who was a pioneering bandleader in the 1930s.
Among Calloway's activities during the 1990s was a two-year stint singing at La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa and the performance series at Espiritu Canyon Road, which was captured on her compact disc Live at Espiritu.
"She was the ultimate in terms of swing," said Sharon Shaheen, who played the piano for the Calloway shows at La Posada and Espiritu. "Her timing was just impeccable, and it was just the height of my career to be playing with her. We had so much fun. She just took me under her wing and trained me in the art of swing."
Calloway's most recent shows, performed with the Bert Dalton Trio, featured material by her godmother, Lena Horne. Her last scheduled date was at the New Mexico Jazz Festival on July 20, but she was too weak to leave home.
"It's not about life or death at this point," the ailing singer had told The New Mexican in a May 2007 interview. "It's about my spiritual growth and my mission to understand and really embrace and appreciate what life is about, what joie de vivre really is. I could be some single mother in Darfur or Baghdad. To be living with breast cancer in America, where I have access to some of the best medical treatment in the world, is just not that bad on a scale of one to 10.
"Of course chemotherapy is not a walk in the park," Calloway continued, "and when I found out the cancer had returned and that I needed chemo, I just fell in a hump on the floor and it was, 'I'm going to die. I'm going to die,' and a little angel voice said, 'And?'
" 'And? I have cancer and I have to have chemo and I'm going to die,' and the angel said, 'Oh, little Chris, you're a blessed, beautiful, magnificent manifestation of God. You're perfect, and of course you're going to die. Life is a terminal disease. None of us gets out of this alive, so the question is, my darling, how are you going to live?'"
She lived well, said those who knew her.
"She had that Calloway attitude, the show must go on, through it all," Dalton said. "She was very gracious, the way she conducted this battle, and was very open on stage about it and about how much she learned from this experience."
In addition to her father, Calloway was preceded in death by her son, Rupert Osaze Dia Crosse. She is survived by her mother, Nuffie Calloway; her sisters, Cecelia Lael Calloway and Cabella Calloway Langsam; her grandchildren, Cabbie and Becca Crosse; her daughter-in-law, Julie Crosse of Portland Ore., and many nephews.
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[sierria64]

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[Soulie70]

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[sierria64]

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[Soulie70]

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[sierria64]

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[TooDarnSoulful]

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