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American jazz singer and composer

Musical artist

Nnenna Freelon (born July 28, 1954) is an American jazz singer, composer, producer, and arranger.

Early life and education

Freelon was born Chinyere Nnenna Pierce to Charles and Frances Pierce in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was raised.^[1] She has a brother Melvin and a sister named Debbie.

She is a Black jazz singer, composer, producer, and arranger.

She is a Black jazz singer, composer, producer, and arranger.

Matriarch Nnenna Freelon, 67, has amassed six Grammy nominations through a stellar career as a jazz singer.

Nnenna Freelon (born July 28, ) is an American jazz singer, composer, producer, and arranger.

I'm Nnenna Freelon –jazz singer, actress, storyteller, educator, mother, grandmother, sci fi lover, DIYer, healthy southern foodie.

Nnenna Freelon and Pierce Freelon made history in when they became the first mother-and-son singers to be nominated for individual Grammys.

As a young woman, she sang extensively in her community and the Union Baptist Church and at St. Paul AME. She recalled, "I started singing in the church, like so many others...."^[2] Nnenna graduated from Simmons College in Boston with a degree in health care administration.

For a while she worked for the Durham County Hospital Corporation, Durham, North Carolina.

She suggests that her influences included several "not famous people" as well as Nina Simone and Billy Eckstine, whose records her parents played at home.

"It's important to expose your children to a wide musical environment," she say