Virtue Hampton Whitted, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American jazz musician
Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1922
Place of Birth: Middletown, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 17-Jan-2007
Profession: jazz musician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Virtue Hampton Whitted
- Virtue Hampton Whitted (February 22, 1922 – January 17, 2007) was an American jazz singer and bassist who is best known for her performances during the 1940s and 1950s as a member of the Hampton family band and The Hampton Sisters, a musical group she formed during World War II with her siblings, Aletra, Carmalita, and Dawn Hampton. The Middletown, Ohio, native began performing at a young age and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1938.
- Hampton and her eight siblings performed in Duke Hampton's band, their oldest brother's jazz orchestra, and became a well-known house band at nightclubs in Indianapolis and Cincinnati, Ohio.
- The group also toured the United States, playing at venues that included Carnegie Hall, Apollo Theater, and the Savoy Ballroom.
- After the family's band dissolved in the 1950s, Hampton and two of her sisters, Aletra and Carmalita, performed as the Hampton Sisters for several more years.
- The trio reunited in Indianapolis in 1981 after a break of nearly twenty years.
- Hampton and her sister, Aletra, remained active in Indianapolis's jazz community, performing as a duo until 2006. Hampton and her siblings received Indiana's Governor Arts Award (1991) for their contributions to the state's musical heritage.
- In addition, Hampton was inducted into the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation's Hall of Fame (1999), received an honorary doctorate of music degree from the University of Indianapolis (2004), and was a recipient of NUVO newspaper 's Cultural Vision Lifetime Achievement Award (2006).
- The Indiana Historical Society released The Hampton Sisters, A Jazz Tribute (2003), a compact disc featuring Virtue and Aletra Hampton.
- Members of Hampton's musical family include her son, Pharez Whitted, a jazz trumpeter; her youngest brother, "Slide" Hampton, a NEA Jazz Master; and her sister, Dawn, a New York City cabaret singer and swing dancer.
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