Acting

Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters è noto soprattutto per Daniel Boone, What's My Line?, The Ed Sullivan Show e The Dick Cavett Show. Ethel Waters è nato il 31 ottobre 1896. Ethel Waters è morto/a il 1 settembre 1977 all’età di 80 anni.

Nascita: 31 ottobre 1896
Luogo di nascita: Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Morte: 1 settembre 1977 (80 anni)

Biografia

Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues.

Her best-known recordings includes, "Dinah", "Birmingham Bertha", "Stormy Weather" "Hottentot Potentate", and "Cabin in the Sky", as well as her version of the spiritual, "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award.

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