Dee Alexander is a Chicago-based jazz vocalist and educator. The Chicago group Women Driving Excellence honored Alexander as one of 2016’s Trailblazing Women. In 2012, she received the prestigious 3Arts Award in music and in 2011 the NAACP honored her for outstanding achievements in the arts. Chicago magazine named her “Best Chicago Vocalist” in its July 2009 issue. In 2009, Alexander’s Wild Is the Wind was released on BluJazz and received a five-star rating from DownBeat magazine which named it among the Top Ten recordings of the new millennium.