Anita O'Day, American singer (born 1919)

Anita O'Day

American jazz singer (1919–2006)

Anita Belle Colton, known professionally as Anita O'Day, was an American jazz singer and self-proclaimed “song stylist” widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances that shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer". Refusing to…