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She let people think Eddie Carson, a vaudeville drummer, was Josephine’s father. He was willing to play along, influencing the young artist by immersing her in music. Forced to work as a domestic home of white families at an early age, Josephine’s childhood was cut short.
Josephine Baker was born on June 3, 1906, in St. Louis, as Freda Josephine McDonald to Carrie McDonald, an adoptee of a formerly enslaved couple. Her father's identity is widely disputed by some, but her estate lists drummer Eddie Carson as her father. Baker's mother later remarried and had three more children.
- Who Is The Josephine Baker Family? Has She Adopted Many Children?
- Baker Bio: Early Life, Parents, Childhood, Nationality, Age
- How Did Josephine Start Her Career?
- Who Was Josephine Baker Husband?
- How Did Josephine Die? Was She Sick?
According to the Josephine Baker family, Carrie McDonald, her mother, was a washerwoman who had given up her ambition to be a music hall dancer. Eddie Carson, her father, was a vaudeville drummer. Shortly after Carrie’s birth, he abandoned her and Josephine. Baker retired to a sixteenth-century château she dubbed Les Milandes when she finished perf...
Freda Josephine McDonald was born in 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri, to Carrie McDonald, a laundress, and Eddie Carson, a pianist. Her upbringing predicted her eventual profession. For nickels and dimes, she first performed for the general public on the streets of St. Louis. She later worked as a chorus girl in St. Louis. She married Pullman porter Wi...
Baker was recruited for the St. Louis Chorus vaudeville act after persistently pestering a show manager in her hometown. She moved to New York City during the Harlem Renaissance at the age of 15, when she performed at the Plantation Club, Florence Mills’ old haunt, and in the chorus lines of the innovative and massively successful Broadway revues S...
Josephine had dropped out of school at the age of twelve to work as a waitress at the Old Chauffeur’s Club since her family was destitute. She met Willie Wells, a Pullman porter, there and married him at the age of thirteen. Within a year, the couple had divorced. Josephine joined the Jones Family Band, a street entertainment group, and danced with...
Baker performed in Joséphine à Bobino 1975, a retrospective revue at the Bobino in Paris honoring her 50 years in show business. The revue, which partly funded by Prince Rainier, Princess Grace, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, premiered to rapturous applause. The demand for seating so high that spectators had to be accommodated with fold-out chairs...
Baker's estate identifies vaudeville drummer Eddie Carson as her natural father despite evidence to the contrary. In 1993, Josephine Baker's foster son Jean-Claude Baker published a biography titled Josephine: The Hungry Heart, which was the culmination of decades of exhaustive research into Baker's life and career. In the book, he discusses at ...
About Josephine Baker. June 3, 1906: Josephine Baker (Freda Josephine McDonald) was born to washerwoman Carrie McDonald and vaudeville drummer Eddie Carson. Sadly, Eddie abandoned them shortly thereafter, but that didn’t stop Baker from making an impact on the world.
Josephine Baker. Born to Carrie McDonald, a laundress, and Eddie Carson, a musician, Josephine's early life hinted at her future career. She first danced for the public on the streets of St. Louis for nickels and dimes. Later, she became a chorus girl on the St. Louis stage.
EDDIE CARSON jailbird blues / my woman turned JOSIE Recorded in NY 1955 with Buddy Lucas Orchestra
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