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- Ida Mae James was born in 1921, in Providence, Rhode Island. Ida’s mother taught her how to sing, she travel the country doing amateur night shows until she was discovered on the Radio Kiddie Hour in Philadelphia, PA. Changing her name to Ida James, she was a singer, actress, and bartender at Harlem’s Sugar Hill Cafe.
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Ida’s mother taught her how to sing, she travel the country doing amateur night shows until she was discovered on the Radio Kiddie Hour in Philadelphia, PA. Changing her name to Ida James, she was a singer, actress, and bartender at Harlem’s Sugar Hill Cafe.
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Jul 11, 2015 · Ida Mae James was born in 1921, in Providence, Rhode Island. Ida's mother taught her how to sing, she travel the country doing amateur night shows until she was discovered on the Radio Kiddie Hour in...
- Overview
- Career
- 1928
- 1929
- 1930–1934
- Kane v. Fleischer
- Defense Uses Baby Esther
- Legacy
- Misconceptions
“Baby” Esther Lee Jones, originally billed as Little, Li’l or Lil’ Esther, was a child entertainer who lived in Chicago, Illinois. She was initially managed by her parents, Gertrude and William Jones. Esther was a trained scat singer, dancer and acrobat who performed regularly at nightclubs in Harlemand all over the United States in the 1920s. In h...
Baby Esther lived in the “colored” neighborhood of Chicago with her mother and father. Esther’s career began in the 1920s when she won first prize at a Charleston contest in Chicago at the age of six. Russian-American theatrical manager Lou Bolton saw her performance and took her on, with her first performance purportedly being in a Chicago revue, ...
Esther performed briefly at a nightclub called the Everglades Club, where she would do imitations of Florence Mills, late at night. In June, Esther’s father William Jones and manager Lou Bolton were charged for having a minor perform on stage; one write-up of the incident suggested that William Jones was not Esther’s birth parent. In late 1928 Esth...
Esther toured Europe in 1929, when her age was variously reported as seven or ten. An article in The Chicago Defenderdescribed her as the highest-paid child artist in the world. While touring Europe she delighted audiences including royalty. In Spain she played for King Alphonso and Queen Victoria Eugenie. In Sweden King Gustave and the Queen came ...
Esther continued her success in South America. In Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and Montevideo she proved to be a sensation. In Rio de Janeiro, American Ambassador Morgan came to see her play and after her performance came backstage to congratulate her. He praised her ability to sing in different languages and invited her to perform for ...
In 1930, Fleischer Studios animator Grim Natwick introduced a caricature of Helen Kane—a singer known since 1923 for her baby voice and for replacing lyrics with noises, and later for her signature phrase “boop-oop-a-doop”—in the form of an anthropomorphic singing dog with droopy ears and a squeaky singing voice, in the Talkartoons cartoon Dizzy Di...
Testimony was given that Kane adopted her singing style after watching Baby Esther perform in a New York nightclub in April 1928. Esther’s first manager, Lou Bolton, testified for the defense stating that in 1925, he coached a “young negro child” named Esther, teaching her how to interpolate her songs with scat lyrics such as “boo-did-do-doo” and “...
Baby Esther is most associated today with her connection with the Kane v. Fleischerlawsuit. The film of Jones has been credited with convincing the judge in the case that Helen Kane had copied Baby Esther. Film scholar Mark Langer disputes this interpretation, which he says has become “conventional wisdom”. No confirmed recordings of Jones are know...
Baby Esther shares her original name and original stage name with Little Esther Phillips, who was also known as Esther Mae Jones. Both singers used the names “Little Esther” and “Li’l Esther”, but Esther Phillips was of a later generation, born in 1935. Photos of the model Olya Gussy costumed as Betty Boop, taken by Russian-based studio Retro Ateli...
Influenced by Ida B. Wells and the lack of black history teachings in school, Regina became a key member of the Harlem Renaissance. Biography. Regina was born in the Hyde Park section of Chicago, Illinois, to Margaret Simons Anderson and William Grant “Habeas Corpus” Anderson.
James Baldwin’s article “The Harlem Ghetto: Winter 1948,” published in the February COMMENTARY, won national comment. “Previous Condition,” his first published short story, is a sensitive and powerful study of the life of a young Negro artist in present-day American society.
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