Adelaide Hall
Adelaide Louise Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death. Early in her career, she was a major figure in the
Harlem Renaissance ; she became based in the UK after 1938. Hall entered the ''
Guinness Book of World Records '' in 2003 as the world's most enduring recording artist, having released material over eight consecutive decades. She performed with major artists such as
Art Tatum ,
Ethel Waters ,
Josephine Baker ,
Louis Armstrong ,
Lena Horne ,
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson ,
Cab Calloway ,
Fela Sowande ,
Rudy Vallee , and
Jools Holland , and recorded as a jazz singer with
Duke Ellington (with whom she made her most famous recording, "
Creole Love Call " in 1927) and with
Fats Waller .
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Adelaide Louise Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death. Early in her career, she was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance; she became based in the UK after 1938. Hall entered the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' in 2003 as the world's most enduring recording artist, having released material over eight consecutive decades. She performed with major artists such as Art Tatum, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Cab Calloway, Fela Sowande, Rudy Vallee, and Jools Holland, and recorded as a jazz singer with Duke Ellington (with whom she made her most famous recording, "Creole Love Call" in 1927) and with Fats Waller.
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