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Jazz musician Valaida Snow. In the 1930s, famous Tennessee jazz musician Valaida Snow was known as “Little Louis” because her talent with a trumpet rivaled the legendary Louis Armstrong. She performed around the world, but it was a tour of Europe that would haunt her for the rest of her life. While in German-occupied Denmark, Snow is said ...
Valaida Snow. Self: Take It from Me. Valaida Snow was the product of a musical family; her mother, a music teacher, taught Valaida and her sisters to play a wide variety of instruments, among them cello, bass, mandolin, violin, clarinet, saxophone and accordion. The girls also sang and danced, but when Valaida turned professional at the age of 15, she began focusing on vocals and trumpet When ...
Jul 8, 2021 · Valaida Snow (1905 - 1956) lived most of her life on stage and on the road. She was born to a traveling show business family, the eldest of four children, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Her mother taught Valaida and her siblings to perform and Valaida showed great promise early on. By the age of 15, she was an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, singer, and dancer, and began to appear ...
The Valaida Snow story drawn by Emmanuel Reuzé & Mael RannouThe full Valaida Snow playlist here: http://bit.ly/ValaidaSnow-FullPlaylistGet the Digital versio...
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Valaida Snow. Valaida Snow was the product of a musical family; her mother, a music teacher, taught Valaida and her sisters to play a wide variety of instruments, among them cello, bass, mandolin, violin, clarinet, saxophone and accordion. The girls also sang and danced, but when Valaida turned professional at the age of 15, she began focusing ...
Valaida Snow Follow Artist + If fate had not seemingly conspired against her, Valaida Snow might well be counted among the greatest entertainers of the early 20th century; instead, she remains little known outside of an avid cult…
Valaida Snow. US trumpet player and jazz singer, composer and arranger. Her place and date of birth was deliberately blurred by her own statements during her show business career, but has been established (by Mark Miller per her birth records and April 1910 US census) as June 2, 1904, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
