Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Salome Bey — affectionately known as Canada's "First Lady of the Blues" — has died. Salome Bey, a true Canadian legend. Salome Bey was known as “Canada's First Lady of the Blues". pic.twitter.com/j2SaQi4VaK —@afrotoronto RIP Salome Bey, a voice often heard in our house growing up. In 1996, Bey received the Martin Luther King Jr. award for lifetime achievement from the Black Theatre Workshop of Montreal, Canada's longest-running Black theatre company.

Source: CBC News August 10, 2020 14:46 UTC