Adelaide Louise Hall ( October â€" November ) was an American-born
UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her long career spanned more
than years from until her death and she was a major figure in the
Harlem Renaissance. Hall entered the Guinness Book of World Records in
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, 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 ) and
with Fats Waller.Adelaide Hall was born in Brooklyn, New York, United
States, to Elizabeth and Arthur William Hall in . Adelaide and her
sister Evelyn attended the Pratt Institute, where William Hall taught
piano; Evelyn was to die of influenza in , by which time her father
had also died, and the teenaged Hall had to support herself and her
mother.Hall began her stage career in on Broadway in the chorus line
of Noble Sissle's and Eubie Blake's hit musical Shuffle Along and went
onto appear in a number of similar black musical shows including
Runnin' Wild on Broadway in , in which she sang James P. Johnson's hit
song "Old-Fashioned Love."
UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her long career spanned more
than years from until her death and she was a major figure in the
Harlem Renaissance. Hall entered the Guinness Book of World Records in
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, 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 ) and
with Fats Waller.Adelaide Hall was born in Brooklyn, New York, United
States, to Elizabeth and Arthur William Hall in . Adelaide and her
sister Evelyn attended the Pratt Institute, where William Hall taught
piano; Evelyn was to die of influenza in , by which time her father
had also died, and the teenaged Hall had to support herself and her
mother.Hall began her stage career in on Broadway in the chorus line
of Noble Sissle's and Eubie Blake's hit musical Shuffle Along and went
onto appear in a number of similar black musical shows including
Runnin' Wild on Broadway in , in which she sang James P. Johnson's hit
song "Old-Fashioned Love."
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