Adelaide Hall

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Brooklyn, New York, USA

Adelaide Louise Hall was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her long career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death and she was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

Known for

• Great Performances — Self1971
• A World Is Turning1948
• The Thief of Bagdad — Singer1940
• An All-Colored Vaudeville Show — Self1935
• Dancers in the Dark — Gloria Bishop (singing voice)1932

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8,169

Total plays

32,476

Adelaide Hall (20 October 1901–7 November 1993) was an American-born British jazz singer and entertainer. In 1921, an unheralded teenager named Adelaide Hall appeared as just another hoofer in the chorus line for the musical Shuffle Along. A scant seven years later, her role in the Broadway revue Blackbirds of 1928 (the most famous of the series of Blackbirds revues mounted during the 1920s and 30s) brought her international fame. Hall's stage performance in that production—in which the newcome

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Music

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Louise

Family name

Hall

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New York City

Place of death

London

Educated at

Pratt Institute

Genre

jazz

Movement

Harlem Renaissance

Instrument

voice

Record label

Decca

Image

Vu (magazine) N°77.JPG

Voice type

soprano

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