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Jazz pianist and saxophonist (1914-1989); leader of the Billy Tipton Trio (later Quartet). Probably best known for the discovery after his death that he was born Dorothy and had been a woman living as a man for all of his adult life. While the cross-dressing probably began as a way to get work as a jazz musician, he later married several times and had three adopted sons, none of whom knew he was really a woman.

Resources in This Category

• HistoryLink Essay: Tipton, Billy (1914-1989): Spokane's Secretive Jazzman

  http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=7456
  Article by Peter Blecha includes an image of one of his record covers.

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