Irene Reid has been played on NTS shows including Sameed, with I Must Be Doing Something Right first played on 6 January 2019.

Irene Reid (September 23, 1930 - January 4, 2008) was an American jazz singer.

Reid was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia. She sang in church and in high school in Georgia, and moved to New York City in 1947 after her mother died. Toward the end of 1947, she tied out for an amateur contest at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, and won the competition for five straight weeks. Soon after she was offered a slot as the featured vocalist with Dick…