Marju Kuut

Marynel-Marju Kuut (12 February 1946 – 10 April 2022) was an Estonian jazz singer and record producer.

In 1965, the jazz magazine Down Beat named her the best female jazz singer of the USSR. In the 1970s she was a singer in the ensembles MERL and MIR.

She was an artist in the Astoria, Tallinn and Viru variety shows.

Kuut worked at restaurants and variety shows as a singer but also at the Tallinn Centre Hospital as a sanitarian, the Estonian Telegraph agency as a photocopier and as an Estonian-speaking producer for Hea Sõnum radio in Sweden.

Between 1981 and 1989, she worked as an Estonian-speaking producer for Hea Sõnum radio's IBRA Radio and performed many times. From 1988 until 1991, she worked with Warner Bros., recording music for young talent, composing, arranging and producing. In the years 1991–2005 she performed on ferries. That same year she participated in TV3's Laulud tähtedega.

Marju Kuut ran for Tallinn City Council in 2009 in the Centre Party's list and received 10 votes.

Personal Life Marju Kuut had a son Uku Kuut in 1966, from her first marriage to Ivar Krull, which lasted one and a half years. Uku Kuut died on 22 September 2017, of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), aged 51.

Her 2-year-long relationship with pianist Rein Alango (1947–1971) ended with Alango's death due to food poisoning.

During her last decade of living, she lived a private life and seldom interacted with the media.

Kuut didn't accept the order of the White Star award, because she disagreed with the reason for the award. She found it meaningless and that it didn't truly reflect her music career. Although it was still sent to her home in Sweden.

In 2005, film director Erle Veber made a documentary about Kuut, titled Värvivalgus.

She was buried at Pärsama cemetery in Saaremaa, though she requested to be buried at Tornimäe cemetery with her son Uku.

Filmography Maria – Varastati Vana Toomas (1971).