ADELAIDE HALL
Vocal Jazz • United States
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American-born British jazz singer and entertainer, a jazz improviser whose wordless rhythms ushered in what became known as scat singing. She became the most celebrated black female performer in America in the 1920s. Her recording career spans 8 decades, from 1927 to 1991.
* 20 October 1901 in Brooklyn, New York, USA † 7 November 1993 in London, England, UK
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Adelaide Hall is one of those forgotten singers, prominent between the two World Wars but overlooked in the years that followed. That she was one of the top black singers of her era makes her lack of recognition or representation in the record catalog especially frustrating, It's even more astonishing when one realizes that Hall was the vocalist on Duke Ellington's original 1927 hit recording of "Creole Love Call," introduced the song "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" to the world, and was second in popularity only to Josephine Baker in
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