Mavis Rivers

{{Short description|Samoan and New Zealand jazz singer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Mavis Rivers | birth_name = Mavis Chloe Rivers | birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|05|19|df=y}} | birth_place = Apia, Samoa | death_date = {{death date and age|1992|05|29|1929|05|19|df=y}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | genre = Jazz | label = TANZA, Stebbings, Zodiac Records, Reprise Records, Capitol Records }}

'''Mavis Chloe Rivers''' (19 May 1929 – 29 May 1992)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5r13/rivers-mavis-chloe|title=Rivers, Mavis Chloe|website=Teara.govt.nz|access-date=7 October 2021}}</ref> was a Samoan and New Zealand jazz singer. She was born in Apia, Samoa, as one of thirteen children to a musical family.<ref name="DNZB Rivers">{{DNZB|title=Mavis Chloe Rivers|first= Shane|last= Rivers|id=5r13|access-date=17 September 2018}}</ref><ref name=AllMusicMavisRivers>{{cite web|publisher=AllMusic|title=Mavis Rivers|access-date=17 September 2018|author=Jason Birchmeier| url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mavis-rivers-mn0000394187/biography}}</ref> In 1952, Rivers made several recordings with the Lloyd Sly Quartette at Stebbing Studios, released on Zodiac, Capitol and Stebbings labels.<ref>[https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22687308?search%5Bpath%5D=items&search%5Btext%5D=lloyd+sly 'Rivers, Mavis : Choc'late ice cream cone ; Rose Rose I love you (Z71)']. Reference: MSD10-0447. ''National Library of New Zealand''.</ref><ref>[https://music.apple.com/nz/artist/the-lloyd-sly-quartette/735844632 'The Lloyd Sly Quartette - The Tanza, Stebbing & Zodiac Years']. ''Apple Music''</ref><ref>[https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/102183/all 'Lloyd Sly']. ''SecondHandSongs''.</ref> Then in 1954 she moved to the United States where she married Glicerio Reyes "David" Catingub, a Filipino singer and bass player, and they had two sons.<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=2098}}</ref> She was a nominee for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1960.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> Rivers died in 1992 due to a stroke after a concert in Los Angeles, California.<ref name="DNZB Rivers"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-01-mn-303-story.html|title=Mavis Rivers, 63; Jazz Singer|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=1 June 1992|access-date=17 September 2018}}</ref>

==Discography== * ''Take a Number'' (Capitol, 1959) * ''The Simple Life'' (Capitol, 1960) * ''Hooray for Love'' (Capitol, 1960) * ''Swing Along with Mavis'' (Reprise, 1961) * ''Mavis'' (Reprise, 1961) * ''Do It Now'' (Reprise, 1962) * ''Mavis Meets Shorty'' with Shorty Rogers (Reprise, 1963) * ''We Remember Mildred Bailey'' with Red Norvo (Vee Jay, 1965) * ''It's a Good Day'' (Delos, 1984)

===As guest=== '''With Matt Catingub''' * ''My Mommy and Me'' (Sea Breeze, 1983) * ''Your Friendly Neighborhood Big Band'' (Reference, 1984) * ''High Tech Big Band'' (Sea Breeze, 1985) * ''I'm Getting Cement All Over You (Ewe)'' (Sea Breeze, 1991)

'''With others''' * Alfred Newman, Ken Darby, ''Ports of Paradise'' (Capitol, 1960) * Red Norvo, ''The Red Norvo Quintet'' (Studio West, 1990)

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