Pinky Winters (born Phyllis Wozniak in 1930) is an American jazz singer with an on-and-off career span of over 80 years.
[3] After a brief spell as an office worker, she moved with a girlfriend and with Dick Groves to Denver, Colorado, where she sang and played the piano in clubs and took on the stage name of Pinky Winters.
[1] In 1953, Winters and Groves moved to California, performing in venues such as the Starlight night club in Los Angeles.
[3] From the mid to late 1950s, Winters worked in many clubs in the area and released several jazz albums on which she was accompanied by top musicians in the LA jazz scene, including Zoot Sims, Lou Levy, Gerald Wiggins, Howard Roberts and Chico Hamilton.
[5][6] From an on-and-off four decade career, Winters became known for her intimate and informal singing style,[7] with what the jazz expert Doug Ramsey describes as "impeccable diction, interpretation, time and phrasing".