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Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues.
Ethel Waters (born October 31, 1896, Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died September 1, 1977, Chatsworth, California) was an American blues and jazz singer and dramatic actress whose singing, based in the blues tradition, featured her full-bodied voice, wide range, and slow vibrato.
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Ethel Waters (1896–1977) was a blues singer and actress who was the first African American to star in her own television show and to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Black Women LGBTQ+ Women. Ethel Waters found fame and broke barriers as an American blues singer and actress. She started her performance career singing in a nightclub in Baltimore, Maryland. She went on to tour with the Braxton and Nugent vaudeville troupe and to record music.
"Stormy Weather" was written by Harold Arlen (1905-1986) and Ted Koehler (1894-1973), in 1933. It was first sang by Ethel Waters (1896-1977) at a club, and then recorded by her in the same year.
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Ethel Waters. Actress: Cabin in the Sky. The child of a teenage rape victim, Ethel Waters grew up in the slums of Philadelphia and neighboring cities, seldom living anywhere for more than a few weeks at a time. "No one raised me, " she recollected, "I just ran wild."
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Ethel Waters. Actress: Cabin in the Sky. The child of a teenage rape victim, Ethel Waters grew up in the slums of Philadelphia and neighboring cities, seldom living anywhere for more than a few weeks at a time. "No one raised me, " she recollected, "I just ran wild."
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