Rita Moss

Rita Moss (born Loreta L. Waynesboro; July 4, 1918 – July 16, 2015) was an American jazz and ballad singer born in Cabin Creek, Kanawha, West Virginia, notable for her 4-octave vocal range.Although she took piano lessons as a child, she was a mostly self-taught multi-instrumentalist who could play piano, organ and drums.Moss grew up in Long Island, New York, and credited the discovery of her vocal range talent to her singing along to saxophonist Freddy Gardner's recording of "Body and Soul", a record she had turned up in a Manhattan store bargain bin.