Salome Bey CM (October 10, 1933 – August 8, 2020)[1][note 1] was a U.S.-born Canadian singer-songwriter, composer, and actress who lived in Toronto, Ontario, from 1966.
Bey appeared on Broadway in Your Arms Too Short to Box with God, for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award for her work on the cast album.
She put together a blues & jazz cabaret show on the history of black music, Indigo – which earned her the Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding performance.
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.
[6] She married Howard Berkeley Matthews on April 7, 1964; he was most noted for partnering with Dave Mann, Archie Alleyne and John Henry Jackson in The Underground Railroad, a soul food restaurant in Toronto.