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American jazz musician
Gender:
Female
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Birth:
22 February 1922
Death:
17 January 2007
The details
Biography
Introduction
Virtue Hampton Whitted (February 22, 1922, Middletown, Ohio – January 17, 2007, Indianapolis, Indiana) was a jazz singer and bassist.
In 1938 she moved to Indianapolis, Indiana and later formed the Hampton Sisters with her two sisters. She became a major figure in Indianapolis's jazz community and the Hampton Sisters were inducted into the Indianapolis Jazz hall of fame in 1999.
She died January 17, 2007 in Indianapolis, Indiana, aged 84, one week after suffering a stroke. She was the mother of jazz trumpeter Pharez Whitted and the sister of trombonist Slide Hampton.