Velma Middleton

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1917-09-01

Active to

1961-02-10

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,874

Total plays

6,726

Velma Middleton (September 1, 1917 - February 10, 1961) was an American jazz singer. She is best known for having sung with Louis Armstrong's big bands and small groups. She was with Armstrong from 1942 to 1961. Middleton was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, and later moved with her parents to St. Louis, Missouri. Middleton spent most of her career as Louis Armstrong's singer. She was originally a dancer and, although overweight, she often did splits on stage, even during her Armstrong years. <a

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,704x

2. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,261x

3. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,796x

4. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger^*

   · 2017 · cited 3,669x

5. Advanced LIGO

   · 2015 · cited 3,130x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Middleton

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

St. Louis

Place of death

Freetown

Occupation

jazz musician

Genre

jazz

Instrument

voice

Image

Velma Middleton.jpg

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