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Julie Burrell

Jazz singer born on July 16, 1963, in Houston, Texas. She died April 25, 2006. She attended junior and senior high school in Manor, Texas and left home briefly at 17, moving to New York to audit classes at the Julliard School. Burrell studied classical piano, wrote the music for Episcopal hymn "Let Him Reign" at age 12, and later toured with the Stray Cats, Gregg Allman, and Johnny Winter.