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The lifetime achievement Grammy Award winner, who recorded primarily for children, died “peacefully” at her residence in Chicago, according to her longtime record label, Smithsonian Folkways.

Representatives for Jenkins and Smithsonian Folkways did not immediately comment when reached Monday by The Times.

Jenkins released her first 10-inch vinyl album, “Call and Response,” on Moses Asch’s original Folkways Records in 1957.

In 1966, she released her signature composition and Smithsonian Folkways bestseller, “You’ll Sing a Song and I’ll Sing a Song,” with the children’s chorus of Urban Gateways and continued to release dozens of songs and numerous albums after that.

In 2011, she recorded “A Life of Song,” her 32nd album on Smithsonian Folkways and the first children’s album in the African American Legacy Series.