 
This poignant documentary looks at the life of legendary jazz singer Jimmy Scott through interviews and live performance clips. A victim of Kallman’s Syndrome, Scott stopped growing at age 12 and never reached puberty. His voice was impossibly high and he was often mistaken for a woman in drag. He grew up hard in a family of ten kids with a father that was rarely around and a mother that died when he was fairly young. On Redd Foxx’s insistence, he moved to New York in 1945 and began to make a name for himself, touring with some of the biggest bands of the era. An unscrupulous manager screwed him out of royalties and prevented two major recording deals from going forward, so eventually Scott became disillusioned and stopped performing. At the funeral of his friend Doc Pomus in 1989, Sire Records president Seymour Stein heard Scott sing and signed him to a deal as part of the Warner Bros family, re-invigorating his career once again. Scott is extremely candid as he relates how he nearly made it to the top several times, only to be thwarted by circumstance, yet his attitude remains surprisingly positive. At age 75, he continues to record and tour regularly and many of his classic recordings have finally been re-released.
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