Unsigned Portrait of Dee Dee Sharp Oil on Canvas c 1960 P2864

It's a very fine painting by an obviously highly skilled illustrator, jazzy and flashy and at the same time a perfect likeness of a truly dynamite artist. Possibly done for a record company or a club or a high end music store, such as used to exist. Measures 12" x 16". Dee Dee Sharp (born Dione LaRue, September 9, 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American R&B singer, who began her career recording as a backing vocalist in 1961. Although Sharp had been playing the piano from an early age and directed church choirs for her grandfather's and other congregations in her hometown of Philadelphia, her singing career began in 1958 at the age of 13 years when her mother's car accident spurred her to find a job to help support her family while she recovered from her injuries. With her grandmother's blessing, given only after she promised to keep up with the schooling, Sharp responded to an ad in the daily news for backup singers. Her first job was with Willa Ward Moultr