Career
After moving to Toronto in 1964 and playing the jazz club circuit, she became known as "Canada"s First Lady of Blues". She put together a blues & jazz cabaret show on the history of black music, Indigo - which earned her the Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding performance. The show was later taped for television networks.
Bey recorded two albums with Horace Silver, and released live albums of her performances with the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir and at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
Beginning in her early sixties, Bey began showing signs of dementia. As of 2011 her illness had progressed to the point that she can no longer perform.
They have three children.