Wesla Whitfield, one of Northern California’s most acclaimed vocalists, died on Feb. 9 at her St. Helena home, according to multiple reports. Wesla Whitfield. (Photo by Christine Alicino) The ...

Whitfield, who died Feb. 9, started in the San Francisco Opera in the 1970s before moving on to piano bars. She later performed regularly at New York's Algonquin Hotel. Originally broadcast in 1988.

Wesla Whitfield, who overcame partial paralysis to become a preeminent vocal stylist, winning acclaim for her interpretations of the Great American Songbook and acquiring a devoted following that ...

Wesla Whitfield, the supremely elegant Bay Area jazz and cabaret singer who devoted her abundant musical life to the Great American Songbook, died Friday at her home in St. Helena. The cause of death ...

Wesla Whitfield, a classically trained vocalist whose fresh interpretations of the Great American Songbook were anything but standard, died on Friday at her home in St. Helena, Calif. She was 70. The ...

We lost one of the Great Ones last week with the passing of Wesla Whitfield. Unlike other vocalists who just sing, Wesla told a story. Being wheelchair bound, you never saw her as a sex symbol. She ...

It was an epiphany at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco that changed the course of Wesla Whitfield’s life. “Some friends of mine took me to hear this singer Sarah Vaughan, and that was ...

Recalling youth and the first flush of love with Hoagy Carmichael's "The Nearness of You" and mining the subtle humor of Irving Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek," Wesla Whitfield pages through the great ...

The subject line in an email from Mike Greensill, received Monday, brought me up short: “Wesla — Time to leave the room.” The attached note from his wife, singer Wesla Whitfield, was addressed to ...

This is FRESH AIR. Wesla Whitfield, the opera singer turned cabaret singer celebrated for her treatment of songs from the Great American Songbook, died last Friday at age 70. She is survived by her ...