Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters contributed music and movies, but it is surprising that she is often forgotten. She is a talented blues singer and has a distinctive style and is distinct from other blues singers. Her talent outperformed the song when she became a drama actress and she was nominated for her performance. The most striking thing about Waters performance is how to rebuild how she plays a role of fidelity to challenge the stereotype. As a singer's career, Esel Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania on October 31, 1896.

Singer and actor Essel Waters was the first woman who publicly sang "St. Louis Blues". Historians Lynn Abbott and Doug Serov, the first male singer who performed "St. Louis Blues", when Handy announced that song in October 1914, a popular female imitator, Charles Anderson It was said. He included this song in his actions. . This stated that Waters had learned from Anderson and supports Waters' statement that they showed themselves on their own while participating in Baltimore in 1917. Researcher Geymark said in his American tape encyclopedia that the first recording of "St. Louis Blues" was recorded by Albernard for the Bocalyric Records in July 1918. But Columbia Records's band, directed by Charles A. Prince, released the instrument version in December 1915.

This popular standard was written in 1933 and premiered by Eselle Waters of Hasam Cotton Club. However, the song version of Lena Horne recorded in the 1943 movie "Storm Weather" is probably the most famous recording of this classic. The lyrics of that song uses weather as a metaphor of a strong emotional state. And that is one of the reasons it entered the Grammy Hall of Fame. "Over the Rainbow" is written for the movie "The Wizard of Oz" by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg Judy Garland originally sang this song from the movie, but Arlen and the executive producer Arthur Freed worked to return it to the movie. Movie version is still the most famous recording, but other cover versions, especially Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo'ole version are well known. List of "century songs" summarized by the American Recording Industry Association and the National Arts Foundation are listed as "on the rainbow"