Ottilie Patterson


Ottilie Patterson was a Northern Irish blues singer best known for her performances and recordings with the Chris Barber Jazz Band in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Anna Ottilie Patterson was born in Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland, onJanuary 1932. She was the youngest child of four. Her father, Joseph Patterson, was from Northern Ireland, and her mother, Jlija Jgers, was from Latvia. They had met in southern Russia. Ottilies name is an Anglicised form of the Latvian name Ottilja . Both sides of the family were musical, and Ottilie trained as a classical pianist from the age of eleven, but never received any formal training as a singer.

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