Lullaby Baxter (born Angelina Teresa Iapaolo in 1970) is a

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jazz singer. Her first album, ''Capable Egg'', was released in 2000 by

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, and her 2006 album ''Garden Cities of To-morrow'' was released by

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'' has called her "cerebrally seductive" and compared her to

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, while

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has compared her to

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.Marc Hogan
"Lullaby Baxter: Garden Cities of To-morrow"

, August 29, 2006; retrieved November 20, 2012. Born in

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, Canada, she is the sister-in-law of jazz musician Steve Kirby.

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