- Won a Grammy as best female jazz vocalist. (1988)
- Founded record label Bet-Car Records in Detroit, MI, in 1970.
- Received The National Medal of Arts award (1997)
- Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1994.
- She was a jazz vocalist.
- Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 99-100. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Has two sons: Kagle Redding, and Myles Redding.
- Friends with Sarah Vaughn, Gigi Gryce, and Jimmy Heath.
- Sister of Betha Jones, Louise Jones, Vivian Jones, and James Jones III.
- Parents are: James Jones II, and Bessie Jones.
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