More people should listen to Dorothy Kirsten

Reading Dorothy Kirsten‘s autobiography twice last year made me revisit her work anew.

She was more versatile than I ever realized, and her writing is as smart as how she handled her long career with virtually no vocal decline. And got away with shaving several years off her real birth date until she died. She was a lady BOSS.

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