Geraldine Bey

Geraldine Bey de Haas (born 1935) is an American jazz singer and concert organizer.

Then she married Eddie de Haas, with whom she settled in Chicago in 1968.

[1] In 1974, she created the Duke Ellington Celebration in Grant Park there, from which the Chicago Jazz Festival developed.

She also organized other concerts and performance opportunities for young musicians and founded the jazz festival at the South Shore Cultural Center in 1981.

[2] With her husband, bassist Eddie de Haas, she has two children, Aisha and Darius, both singers.