Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien OBE, better known by her stage name Dusty Springfield, was an English singer. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano sound, she was a popular singer of blue-eyed soul, pop and dramatic ballads, with French chanson, country, and jazz also in her repertoire.
What did Dusty Springfield die of?
Dusty Springfield, was diagnosewithof breast cancer in January 1994, while recording her penultimate album, A Very Fine Love, in Nashville, Tennessee.
She received months of chemotherapy and radiation treatment, and the cancer was found to be in remission.
By mid-1996 cancer had returned, and despite vigorous treatments, she died in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on 2 March 1999, a month before her 60th birthday.
Springfield’s funeral service was attended by hundreds of fans and people from the music business.
Dusty had a Catholic funeral, which took place at the church of St Mary the Virgin in Henley-on-Thames, where Springfield had lived during her last years. Both Springfield’s wishes, she was cremated and some of her ashes were buried at Henley, while the rest were scattered by her brother, Tom Springfield, at the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.
