Dorothea Scott - "The Voice of Heaven" Dorothea (or "Dot" as her fans called her) Scott was a triple threat who sang, acted and danced in many of the all black cast musicals of the late forties. Her appearance as the lead vocalist for the Duke Ellington Orchstra at Carnegie Hall in 1949 was such a raging success, that she returned as the headliner for a solo concert just six months later (white audiences flocked to hear her smokey rendition of the jazz standard "Nature Boy"). Her refusal to play maids or housekeepers limited her Hollywood career (her biggest movie being "New Orleans Blues"), but she found much more success in Europe.