My capsule obit from IG:
The Last of the 1950s Black Bombshells: Joyce Bryant, the slinky chanteuse whose otherworldly beauty, multioctave vocals and silver hair briefly set the hit parade and nightclub scene ablaze, has passed away at 95, according to her niece Robyn LaBeaud [@joycebryantofficial]. Her cabaret career was one to rival Dandridge’s, Horne’s, Bailey’s or Kitt’s — shamefully, she made no Hollywood inroads as they did—but she gave it all up for the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and to become a highly sought-out vocal coach and opera singer. Her recordings remain out of print, and she is criminally unremembered, but we speak her name. Rest in silver.
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