Moore has loved and lost, yet she has not given up on loving again. She enjoys shopping and spa treatments adores fashion and couture and thoroughly appreciates travel and luxury accommodations. She works hard for her money and treats herself as often as she can, schedule permitting. She has grown accustomed to the finer things in life. Her best friends for life are her first cousins, Dana and Tina-Marie, each successful in her own right. Her grandmother helped her parents raise her. Moore is a young African-American doctor who focused on her goals, followed her dreams, and made it out of the ghetto of North Philly, against all odds. In 2004, Janet Jackson (whose middle name is Damita Jo) titled her eighth studio album Damita Jo, and made the statement that 'Damita Jo is one of the characters that lives inside of me.She is a woman over 30: sophisticated, sassy, sexy, and successful. Beginning in the mid-'80s, she abandoned secular music and became a gospel singer, passing away on Decemat the age of 68. After variable success as a pop singer in the '60s, Damita Jo became a comedienne during the following decade, and worked with Redd Foxx. Damita Jo attracted attention with her answer songs 'I'll Be There' and 'I'll Save the Last Dance for You.' Although capable of sustaining sentimental airs like Jacques Brel's 'If You Go Away,' she clearly preferred punchy theatrical numbers and traditional fare like 'Alice Blue Gown' and 'Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe.' She was usually accompanied by big bands or contemporary studio groups capable of providing the kind of backup which was deemed conducive to commercial airplay. Her powerful and commanding presence on 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out' reveals the direct influence of Dinah Washington. Her earliest known recording, in fact, was made at a live jam session with Wardell Gray and a band of West Coast beboppers back in 1950.

In addition to the disarmingly honest 'I Had Someone Else Before I Had You (And I'll Have Someone After You've Gone)', this handy package includes her cover of Larry Darnell's 'I'll Get Along Somehow' and the Everly Brothers hit 'Bye Bye Love.' Damita Jo's lightning-quick delivery on 'Love Is Here to Stay' is valuable evidence of her skill as a jazz singer.

In 1997, the Collectables reissue label released a 47-minute sampling of chestnuts by pop singer Damita Jo De Blanc, whose best moments on record place her in league with Della Reese, Dakota Staton, Diahann Carroll, and the young Nancy Wilson.

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