Strictly Jazz: The Music of Dinah Washington ft. Michaelyn Oby

Strictly Jazz: The Music of Dinah Washington ft. Michaelyn Oby

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Doors open at 5:30 pm | Show begins at 6:00 pm

$20 in advance (plus fees) | $30 at the door

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Join us for October’s installment of Strictly Jazz Entertainment’s “Strictly Jazz” Series as Chicago-based vocalist Michaelyn Oby presents the music of Dinah Washington!

MICHAELYN OBY

Michaelyn Oby is a sultry princess with a voice reminiscent of those legends of old. She exemplifies the elegance and eloquence of a golden era, while bridging the new soul movement of her fellow contemporaries, with a transcending grace rarely found within those artists of today.

A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she was born to accomplished musicians Michael and Joyce Oby. Relocated to Memphis, Michaelyn began singing at an early age gaining the title as “the little girl with the big voice.” She graced the Memphis Jazz scene as house vocalist for The Sax on Sunday Jazz Jam, where she was featured on WUMR’s 91.7 Jazz Hot Spot. Immediately after, Michaelyn was singing every week on the historic Beale Street at The King’s Palace Café, the only jazz dinner club on the strip.

In 2019, Michaelyn relocated to Chicago, IL, and is proud to call this great city her new home. For several years she performed while cruising up and down The Mississippi River and its tributaries on the American Queen Steamboat as one of its featured/Guest Entertainers. She is especially excited to add her extensive musical repertoire two solo shows “Feeling Good” and “Lady Sings Ms. Ross: A Tribute to Diana Ross” where she pays homage to those influential artists and genres she has grown to love.

ABOUT DINAH WASHINGTON

Dinah Washington was an American singer and pianist, one of the most popular Black female recording artists of the 1950s. Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, and gave herself the title of “Queen of the Blues”. She was also known as “Queen of the Jukeboxes”. She was a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.