Adelaide Hall

About Adelaide Hall

Renowned Cotton Club headliner Adelaide Hall is remembered for her wordless vocals on such Duke Ellington recordings as "Creole Love Call" and "The Blues I Love to Sing." Other numbers with which she was indelibly associated include "Sophisticated Lady," "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," and "Don't Worry 'Bout Me." Hall settled in the U.K. in the late 1930s and appeared in a number of successful musicals, but laid low through the '60s and '70s. In the '80s, Francis Ford Coppola's movie The Cotton Club sparked a renewed public interest in the singers who had performed at the legendary venue, and so Hall made a successful comeback. She passed away in 1993.

HOMETOWN
Brooklyn, NY, United States
BORN
20 October 1901
GENRE
Jazz

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