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- Birth nameBobbe Gorin Long
- Beegie Adair was born on December 11, 1937 in Cave City, Kentucky, USA. She was a music artist, known for Shake, Rattle and Roll (1988). She was married to Billy Adair. She died on January 23, 2022 in Franklin, Tennessee, USA.
- SpouseBilly Adair(1975 - February 18, 2014)
- She was an American jazz pianist and bandleader.
- She was noted for her melodic, relatively simplistic interpretations of standards, with a crisp, purity of sound.
- In a career that spanned sixty years, she played on over 100 recordings. More than a third of these were with her Beegie Adair Trio.
- She was married to Billy Adair for 38 years until his death in February 2014. He was an associate professor of jazz studies at the Blair School of Music.
- She started playing the piano at the age of five.
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