Salome Bey
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Salome Bey, CM is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and composer who has lived in Toronto, Ontario since 1966.
In 2005, she was made an honorary Member of the Order of Canada, a rare honour awarded so far to only one other person (Lois Lilienstein) who is not a Canadian citizen. [1]
She formed a vocal group with her brother and sister known as Andy and the Bey Sisters, performing in local clubs and touring North America and Europe. She first came to Toronto in 1964 and played the jazz club circuit. She was known as Canada's First Lady of Blues. She appeared on Broadway in Your Arms Too Short to Box with God (for which she earned a Grammy nomination for work on cast album). She put together a blues & jazz cabaret show on the history of black music, Indigo (Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding performance), later taped for TV networks.
She recorded two (2) albums with Horace Silver, made live albums of her performances with the Montreal Jubilation Choir land at the Montreaux Jazz Festival. She received the Toronto Arts Award for her contributions to the performing arts in 1992 and the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for lifetime achievement from the Black Theatre Workshop of Montreal in 1996.
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She married Howard Berkeley Matthews on April 7, 1964; they have 3 children.
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