Dina Washington is a work from Marie Reine Levrat Ascolese’s collection.

Dina Washington. She was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as “the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s songs”. Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, and gave herself the title of “Queen of the Blues”. She was a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.