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Salome Bey (October 10, 1933 – August 8, 2020)
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> "Singer Salome Bey, known as Canada's first lady of the blues, dies at age 86". CTV News, August 10, 2020.While The Canadian Encyclopedia gives her year of birth as 1939, other sources say she was born in 1933 or 1944. was a U.S.-born Canadian singer-songwriter, composer, and actress who lived in Toronto, Ontario, from 1966.Durrell Bowman, "Salome Bey". The Canadian Encyclopedia, January 13, 2009.
In 2005, she was made an honorary Member of the Order of Canada. In 2022 she was honoured by Canada Post with a commemorative postage stamp for her contributions to Canadian music and theatre.
Bey recorded two albums with Horace Silver, and released live albums of her performances with the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir and at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
She was part of the Canadian supergroup Northern Lights which performed the charity single "Tears Are Not Enough" in 1985. Bey can be seen in the music video for the song singing the line "Every woman, child and man" with Mark Holmes of Platinum Blonde and Lorraine Segato of The Parachute Club.
She received the Toronto Arts Award for her contributions to the performing arts in 1992, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for lifetime achievement from the Black Theatre Workshop of Montreal in 1996.
Beginning in her early sixties, Bey began showing signs of dementia. As of 2011, her illness had progressed to the point that she could no longer perform.
Bey was a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism.
They had three children, including the singer SATE, formerly known as Saidah Baba Talibah, and singer/performance artist Jacintha Tuku Matthews (tUkU). Matthews died in August 2016 at the age of 80, and Bey died August 8, 2020, at the age of 86.John R. Kennedy, "Canada's First Lady Of Blues Salome Bey Dies". iHeartRadio Canada, August 9, 2020.
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