Grammy and Tony Award winner Dee Dee Bridgewater has risen to the top ranks of female singers in the course of her varied career. Most recently, the three-time Grammy winner won the award for Best Jazz Vocal Album - Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee.

Bridgewater was a member of the legendary Thad Jones/Mel Louis Big Band and founded the DDB Records label in 2006 in collaboration with the Universal Music Group. Her self-produced recordings Dear Ella, Eleanora Fagan and others have received multiple Grammy awards, nominations and critical acclaim.

In parallel, she pursued a career in musical theater and won a Tony Award for The Wiz. Her other engagements include Sophisticated Ladies, Black Ballad, Carmen, Cabaret and the Off-Broadway/West End production of Lady Day, for which Bridgewater received an Olivier Award nomination.

She is a Goodwill Ambassador (UN FAO), NEA Jazz Master, ASCAP Champion, Doris Duke Artist and a member of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.