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Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an United States|American blues and jazz vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, rock and roll and pop music, on the Broadway theatre|Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Her best-known recording was her version of the spiritual (music)|spiritual, "His Eye is on the Sparrow", and she was the second African American ever nominated for an Academy Award.
Biography
Early life
Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania on October 31, 1896 [she revealed her true birthdate in one of her autobiographies], to a thirteen-year-old mother who had been raped. She was raised in a violent, impoverished home. She never lived in the same place for more than 15 months. She said of her difficult childhood, "I never was a child. I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family." Despite this unpromising start, Waters demonstrated early the love of language that so distinguishes her work. Moreover, according to her biographer Rosetta Reitz, Waters' birth in the North and her peripatetic life exposed her to many cultures. For the rest of her life, this lent to her interpretation of southern blues a unique sensibility that pulled in eclectic influences from across American music.
Waters married at the age of 13, but soon left h... read all
Ethel Waters 1896 1977
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