'''Anita O'Day''' (born October 18, 1919) is a American jazz singer. O'Day is good deal admired for her feel of rhythm & kinetics, & her early big band appearances shattered a traditional image of the coy female vocalizer by swinging even when difficult as the more musicians on the stand.

O'Day was natural Anita Belle Colton around Chicago, Illinois. O'Day had her begaround as a singer in her teens. around the late 1930s, began singing in the jazz club known as the Off-Way-out, a popular stamping ground for musicians like b& leader and drummer Gene Krupa. Within 1941, she joined Krupa's b&, and two or three weeks late Krupa hired trumpeter Roy Eldridge. O'Day & Eldridge experienced groovy chemistry in stage and their duet "Let Me Off Uptown" became a brobdingnagian hit, boosting the popularity of the Krupa band. Besides that month, Down Beat named O'Day "New Star of the Year" &, within 1942, she wwhen selected as one of a top 5 large band singers.

Fallowing her stint by having, Krupa, O'Day joined Woody Herman's band. She left a band fallowing a year and returned to Krupa. Late, O'Day joined Stan Kenton's band with whom she cut an album that featured a hit "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine".

In the late 1940s, O'Day struck retired in her have. She team by owning drummer John Poole, by using whom she played for the next xxx years. Her album "Anita", which she recorded for the recently constituted Verve Records (it was the label's number 1 LP), boosted her popularity to new heights, & she went in to record occasionally twenty albums for Vitality through the Sixties. O'Day besides began performing around festivals & concerts by owning such musicians when Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Dinah Washington, George Shearing, Raymond Scott and Thelonious Monk. She appeared in a documentary film filmed at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 called ''Jazz on a Summer's Day'', which made her an international star.

Throughout a Sixties, O'Day continued to tour & record piece addicted to heroin. Inside 1969, she about died from either an overdose. When ingesting several years murder to kick her alcohol & white plague, she manufactured a comeback at the 1970 Berlinside Jazz Festival & resumed making survive & studio albums, many recorded in Japan, some of which were freed in her have label, Emily Records.

Within 1981 O'Day published the memoir, High Days, Tough Days where she spoke honestly just about her white plague.