LC control no. | n 80158642 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Hunter, Alberta |
Variant(s) | Alix, May Beatty, Josephine |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 1895-04-01 |
Death date | 1984-10-17 |
Place of birth | Memphis (Tenn.) |
Place of death | Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.) |
Field of activity | Jazz Popular music Nursing |
Profession or occupation | Nurses Jazz singers |
Found in | Amtrak blues [SR] p1980 (a.e.) labels (Alberta Hunter) container (was 66 in 1961, now nearly 85, so b. ca. 1895) Taylor, F.C. Alberta Hunter, c1986: CIP t.p. (Alberta Hunter) galley (d. 1984) Men are like street cars-- [SR] p1999: container (Alberta Hunter) insert (b. Apr. 1, 1895, Memphis; d. Oct. 18, 1984) Hunter, A. Young Alberta Hunter [SR] p1996: container (Alberta Hunter; also recorded under the pseudonym of Josephine Beatty) New Grove dict. of jazz, 2nd ed. (under Alix, May (i): pseudonym of Alberta Hunter) Wikipedia, March 25, 2016 (Alberta Hunter (Memphis, Tennessee, Apr. 1, 1895 - Roosevelt Island, New York, Oct. 17, 1984) was an internationally known African-American jazz singer and songwriter who had a successful career from early 1920s to the late 1950s, was a contemporary of Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith, and then decided to stop performing to work as a nurse; after 20 years of working as a nurse, in 1977 Hunter made a successful comeback and resumed her popular singing career in her 80s until the time of her death) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Hunter> |
Associated language | eng |