Cassandra Wilson performs at the JVC Jazz Festival in Newport, R.I., on Aug. 10, 2003. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)
\n\nSinger Cassandra Wilson appears at the 48th Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala in New York on June 15, 2017. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
\n\nUS jazz musician Cassandra Wilson poses during an interview in Cologne, Germany on Sept. 25, 2003. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz, File)
\n\nSinger Cassandra Wilson performs at the 48th Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala at the New in New York on June 15, 2017. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Cassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer has died. She was 70.
\n\nDubbed America’s best singer by Time magazine in 2001, Wilson was best known for her genre-bending voice, which expanded the boundaries of traditional blues-based jazz and worked effortlessly across folk, pop, R&B, country and beyond. At the heart of all her work was her idiosyncratic contralto, a soulful sound distinctly tied to her roots.
\n\nAs Jon Batiste put it in a eulogy on Wednesday, Wilson sounded like the South.
\n\nShe died in her native Jackson, Mississippi, on Tuesday morning, the Hinds…
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