What is Salome Bey?
[[File:Salome Bey.jpg|right|200px]] '''Salome Bey''' {{postnominals|country=CAN|CM}} (October 10, 1939 – August 9, 2020)<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/salome-bey-emc| title=Salome Bey| work=The Canadian Encyclopedia| date=January 13, 2009}}</ref><ref group=note>While ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'' gives her year of birth as 1939, other sources say she was born in 1933 or 1944.</ref> was an American-born Canadian [[singer-songwriter]], composer, and actress. She was born in [[Newark, New Jersey]]. Bey recorded two albums with [[Horace Silver]], and released live albums of her performances with the [[Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir]] and at the [[Montreux Jazz Festival]]. In 2005, she was made an honorary Member of the [[Order of Canada]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Salome Bey invested as Honorary Member of the Order of Canada|url=http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=12296|website=Governor General of Canada|access-date=8 July 2016}}</ref> Bey was a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artistsagainstracism.org/artists/|title=Artists - Artists Against Racism|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-10}}</ref> Bey died on August 9, 2020 in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]] from [[dementia]]-related problems, at the age of 80.<ref>[https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/canada-s-first-lady-of-blues-salome-bey-dies-1.13203792 Canada's First Lady Of Blues Salome Bey Dies]</ref> ==Notes== {{reflist|group=note}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bey, Salome}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from dementia]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of Canada]] [[Category:American singer-songwriters]] [[Category:American composers]] [[Category:American jazz singers]] [[Category:American soul singers]] [[Category:American gospel singers]] [[Category:Canadian singer-songwriters]] [[Category:Canadian composers]] [[Category:Singers from Newark, New Jersey]] [[Category:Writers from Newark, New Jersey]] [[Category:Singers from Toronto]] [