This blog is combining my History III class in with our Senior Project class. Ms. Hansbury has asked everyone to write a two page paper on our selected artist from the Harlem Renaissance, and add some type of digital or entertainment effect to it. So why not take the chance and introduce my blog.
Ethel Waters was one of the most popular African-American singers and actresses of the 1920s. She moved to New York in 1919 after touring in vaudeville shows as a singer and a dancer. She made her recording debut in 1921 on Cardinal records with "The New York Glide" and "At the New Jump Steady Ball", but switched over to African-American owned Black Swan label, and recorded "Down Home Blues" and "Oh Daddy" the first Blues numbers for that company. She frequently sang with Fletcher Henderson during the early 1920s, but by the mid-1920s Waters had became more of a pop singer. She performed in a number of musical revues throughout the rest of the decade and appeared a couple of films, including "Check and Double Check" with Amos 'n' Andy and Duke Ellington. By the end of the 1930s she was a big star on Broadway. In 1949, she was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress in the film "Pinky", and the next year she won the New York Drama Critics Award for best actress. Waters got religion in the late Fifties and performed and toured with evangelist Billy Graham until her death in 1977. To the left is a picture of Ethel and a video for one of my favorite songs , "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone". Hope you enjoy.
Great video! In the future, avoid copying material and plunking it down in your blog. Instead, you need to paraphrase it and give a link to the place where you found your info. I would stick with encyclopedias and edu/org sites.
P.S. I'm more of a Bessie Smith man myself. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_smith_bessie.htm
This blog is combining my History III class in with our Senior Project class. Ms. Hansbury has asked everyone to write a two page paper on our selected artist from the Harlem Renaissance, and add some type of digital or entertainment effect to it. So why not take the chance and introduce my blog. 
Great video! In the future, avoid copying material and plunking it down in your blog. Instead, you need to paraphrase it and give a link to the place where you found your info. I would stick with encyclopedias and edu/org sites.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I'm more of a Bessie Smith man myself. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_smith_bessie.htm