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  1. Elvera "Baby" Sanchez Davis (September 1, 1905 – September 3, 2000) was an American dancer and the mother of Sammy Davis Jr.

  2. Apr 13, 2023 · Born Sept. 1, 1905, Elvera was known asBaby Sanchez.” She began performing as a dancer during her teen years. If Elvera is hardly mentioned in Davis’s autobiography, he did acknowledge her,...

  3. Sep 8, 2000 · Elvera Sanchez Davis, a tap dancer and the mother of Sammy Davis Jr., died on Saturday at her home in Manhattan. She was 95. Known as Baby Sanchez, Ms. Davis began performing at 16 in the...

  4. 'Elvera Sanchez was born in New York City to Luisa Valentina (née Aguiar; February 14, 1884 – October 5, 1996), a Cuban immigrant, and Marco Sanchez, who was...

  5. May 10, 2014 · Sammy Davis Jr. was practically born in a trunk on Dec. 8, 1925, to vaudevillians Sammy Davis Sr. and Elvera Sanchez, who was Puerto Rican. The two separated in 1928, and Davis’ father and...

  6. Sep 9, 2000 · Elvera Sanchez Davis, 95, a tap dancer and the mother of Sammy Davis Jr., died Sept. 2 at her home in Manhattan. Ms. Davis, known as Baby Sanchez, began performing at 16 in the chorus line at the...

  7. Vaudeville Entertainer, Tap Dancer and Actress. Mother of (1900-1988). Began performing at age 16 in the chorus line at the Lafayette Theater in Harlem. She worked into the early 1940s, dancing for six years in the chorus line at the Apollo Theatre.

  8. www.blackpast.org › african-american-history › davis-sammy-jr-1925-1990Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925-1990) - Blackpast

    Dec 2, 2018 · His parents, Sammy Davis, Sr., an African American, and Elvera Sanchez, a Cuban American, were both vaudeville dancers. They separated when young Davis was three years old and his father took him on tour with a dance troupe led by Will Mastin.

  9. Elvera Sanchez. Mini Bio. Tap dancer, began performing at age 16 in the chorus line at the Lafayette Theater in Harlem. She continued her career into the early 1940s, dancing for six years in the chorus line at the Apollo Theatre. She served as advisor to the New York Committee to Celebrate National Tap Dance Day from 1989 until her death.

  10. Sep 8, 2000 · Sunday, August 6, 2023 | LATEST NEWS. THE WEST

  11. Sep 9, 2000 · Elvera Sanchez Davis, 95, former dancer and mother of Sammy Davis Jr. Born in Harlem, Davis was a tap dancer who performed in the chorus of a vaudeville troupe headed by Will...

  12. May 21, 2021 · His tenacity served him well when an early morning car accident left him without his left eye. Davis was born on December 8, 1925, in New York City to an African American father, Sammy Davis Sr., and Puerto Rican mother, Elvera Sanchez.

  13. Wil Haygood in his biography “In Black and White––The Life of Sammy Davis Jr.,” the gifted entertainer’s mother, Elvera “Baby” Sanchez, is thoroughly and thoughtfully profiled. Born Sept. 1, 1905, Elvera was known as “Baby Sanchez.”

  14. myjewishdetroit.org › 2019/03/01 › sammy-davis-jr-our-jewish-detroitSammy Davis Jr. - my Jewish Detroit

    Mar 1, 2019 · He was born in Harlem to Baptist African-American Sammy Davis Sr. and Catholic Afro-Cuban Elvera Sanchez, both Vaudeville dancers. Owing to his parents, Sammy was a seasoned performer by the time he crooned “I’ll be glad when you’re dead, you rascal you” in the 1932 film Rufus Jones for President.

  15. Sep 7, 2023 · Nevertheless, Mister Show Business hid the fact that his mother was Cuban American because Cold War tensions between the U.S. and Cuba endangered his livelihood. Elvera Sanchez Davis, Sammy Davis Jr.’s mother, was born in Harlem in 1905 to Cuban immigrants.

  16. Dec 8, 2020 · His Black American father, Sammy Davis Sr., and his Cuban-American mother, Elvera Sanchez, were both dancers. They gifted Davis with the inheritance of dancing feet.

  17. Born on 8th December, 1925 in Harlem, New York City, Sammy Davis, Jr. was the son of two dancers, Sam Davis, Sr. and Elvera Sanchez, both members of a vaudeville troupe run by Will Mastin.

  18. May 16, 1990 · Sammy Davis Jr., born on December 8, 1925, began performing almost as soon as he could walk. Both of his parents, Elvera Sanchez and Sammy Davis Sr., were vaudevillians who danced with the Will Mastin Troupe. Sammy Jr. became the Mastin Troupe's youngest member at age three.

  19. May 18, 1990 · Altovise Davis, Elvera Sanchez, and May Britt attending Sammy Davis Jr.'s funeral service, Glendale, California,1990 — Calisphere. California State University, Northridge. Tom & Ethel Bradley Center Photographs.

  20. Davis was born on December 8, 1925, in the Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City, the son of African American entertainer and stage performer Sammy Davis Sr. (1900–1988) and Cuban-American tap dancer and stage performer Elvera Sanchez (1905–2000). [13]

  21. Samuel George Davis Sr. (December 12, 1900 – May 21, 1988) was an American dancer and the father of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. Early life. Davis was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, to Rosa B. Taylor (1870–1956) and Robert Davis (1868–1948). He and his former wife Elvera Sanchez were both dancers in a vaudeville troupe.

  22. May 16, 2013 · Born Samuel George Davis on December 8, 1925, in Harlem, parents Samuel Sr. and his Cuban-American Mother Elvera Sanchez were both entertainers. Davis began his career early, performing in...

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