A superb interpreter of Americana, singer and pianist Andy Bey learned to play the piano by ear at age 3 (he did receive formal lessons in piano and singing later on). In the early 1950s he performed for five years in the television show "Startime" with Connie Francis, later singing with Louis Jordan at the Apollo Theatre in New York, with his sisters as Andy and the Bey Sisters, and with jazz icons like Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Horace Silver, Max Roach and Lonnie Liston Smith.

“Bey's silky bass-baritone voice has become one of the finest instruments in jazz” (International Herald Tribune)