I don’t consider myself a jazz singer… I’m a singer of songs,” said the vocal star, who won a Grammy in the Best Female Jazz Vocal Performance category.

Cleo Laine, who was married to and performed with fellow jazz musician John Dankworth, has died, according to the U.K. music venue they'd founded.

On Friday, Cleo Laine's death was confirmed by the Stables, a British arts center that she founded with her late husband, John Dankworth. She was 97.