Barbara Dane

Barbara Dane is a Jazz artist from United States, born on May 12, 1927.

Barbara Dane (born Barbara Jean Spillman in in Detroit, MI, on 12 May 1927; died 20 October 2024) was an American folk, blues, and jazz singer, guitarist, record producer, and political activist. She co-founded Paredon Records with Irwin Silber. Born into a white middle-class family, as a child Dane sang and played piano in Sunday school and also learned to play guitar. Right out of high school, she began to raise her strong voice regularly at demonstrations for racial equality and economic justice. .