debut: 2/6/03
3,688 runs
passes
Cleo Laine was born Clementine Dinah Campbell on Oct. 28, 1927, in Southall, West London. Her father, Alec Campbell, was a Jamaican who settled in England after fighting in World War I. Her mother, Minnie Hitchings, was an Englishwoman who made sure no one gave her daughter grief over her mixed heritage.
“If anyone insulted us, she would run at them with a broom,” Ms. Laine once told an interviewer.
Cleo Laine was born Clementine Dinah Campbell on Oct. 28, 1927, in Southall, West London. Her father, Alec Campbell, was a Jamaican who settled in England after fighting in World War I. Her mother, Minnie Hitchings, was an Englishwoman who made sure no one gave her daughter grief over her mixed heritage.
“If anyone insulted us, she would run at them with a broom,” Ms. Laine once told an interviewer.
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