Bonnie Lee was an American Chicago blues singer. Known as The Sweetheart of the Blues, she is best remembered for her lengthy working relationships with Sunnyland Slim and Willie Kent. David Whiteis, who interviewed Lee in researching his book Chicago Blues Portraits and Stories stated, she was one of the last of her genre, the bigvoiced woman blues singer fronting a Chicago band.
She was born Jessie Lee Frealls in Bunkie, Louisiana, and raised in Beaumont, Texas.
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