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  1. Dakota Staton (June 3, 1930 – April 10, 2007) [1] was an American jazz vocalist who found international acclaim with the 1957 No. 4 hit "The Late, Late Show". She was also known by the Muslim name Aliyah Rabia for a period due to her conversion to Islam as interpreted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community .

  2. Apr 13, 2007 · Dakota Staton, a highly respected jazz and blues singer known from the 1950s on for her bright, trumpetlike sound and tough, sassy style, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. She was 76 and had lived...

  3. Apr 20, 2007 · Dakota Staton, a highly regarded jazz vocalist known for her soulful interpretations and for her bluesy 1957 album “The Late, Late Show,” has died. She was 76.

  4. Sep 17, 2023 · It is an unacknowledged classic. Thirty-three years earlier, her first LP recording for Capitol, The Late, Late Show, here reissued on vinyl, climbed to #4 in the U.S. charts and was one of the best-selling albums of the 1950s. George Shearing enthused: “Dakota is dynamic!

  5. Nov 9, 2017 · After a couple of more recordings, she made no more for eight years. But she was not silent. She had concert dates at hotels and on cruise ships, particularly after she moved to England.

  6. Oct 2, 2019 · This was in the mid-1940s, and drawing on the popular music of the day the band played both swing and R&B. At the end of her teenage years she sang professionally with a local band but as she entered her 20s she moved to Detroit and embarked on a her solo career.

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  8. Apr 14, 2007 · The jazz vocalist Dakota Staton passed away this week at the age of 76. Staton received critical acclaim for more than two-dozen albums. She was best known for her 1957 hit song "The Late,...