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Entertainment
 
Entertainment
  
==Notable Achievements==
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==Description==
  
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Jazz musician and entertainer, born a woman, lived adult life as a man, marrying 5 women, adopting 3 children...outed at his death by the doctor.  Recorded two albums of jazz standards: 'Sweet Georgia Brown' and 'Billy Tipton Plays Hi-Fi on Piano', both released in 1957 to acclaim.  Born Dorothy Lucille Tipton.  Subject of the book 'Suits Me:  The Double Life of Billy Tipton' (1989).
  
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==See Also==
  
==Description==
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* [[LGBTQ Jazz]]
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* [[Transgender Singers, Musicians and Composers]]
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==Further Reading/Research==
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* https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/middlebrook-suits.html
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* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bg4b6V4eXY
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* http://lgbthistoryproject.blogspot.ca/2012/02/billy-lee-tipton-1914-89-jazz-musician.html
  
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Latest revision as of 14:17, 30 March 2016

Billy Tipton

Country

United States

Birth - Death

1904 - 1989

Occupation

Entertainment

Description

Jazz musician and entertainer, born a woman, lived adult life as a man, marrying 5 women, adopting 3 children...outed at his death by the doctor. Recorded two albums of jazz standards: 'Sweet Georgia Brown' and 'Billy Tipton Plays Hi-Fi on Piano', both released in 1957 to acclaim. Born Dorothy Lucille Tipton. Subject of the book 'Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton' (1989).

See Also

Further Reading/Research


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