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Occupation (s) Singer. Years active. 1914–1984. Labels. Black Swan, Paramount, Gennett, OKeh, Victor, Columbia, Decca, Bluebird, Bluesville. Alberta Hunter (April 1, 1895 – October 17, 1984) was an American jazz and blues singer and songwriter from the early 1920s to the late 1950s.
28 de mar. de 2024 · Alberta Hunter, American blues singer who achieved international fame in the 1930s for her vigorous and rhythmically infectious style and who enjoyed a resurgence of celebrity in the late 1970s and early ’80s. She performed in vaudeville and later for the USO during World War II and the Korean War.
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Alberta Hunter (1895–1984) was a blues and jazz singer/songwriter who rose to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance. Her flourishing career in the United States and Europe spanned eight decades. Alberta Hunter was born in Memphis, Tennessee.
- Music Forged in Early Childhood Traumas
- Singing Career Expanded
- Traveled and Performed Extensively
- Returning to Music After Nursing
- Selected Works
- Sources
It has been said that to write and sing the blues, you need to live the blues. Alberta Hunter was born on April 1, 1895, in Memphis, Tennessee. Her father, Charles E. Hunter, was a sleeping-car porter on a railroad. He abandoned the family soon after Hunter was born. Her mother, Laura Peterson Hunter, worked as a maid in a brothel just to support h...
From there, Hunter’s career advanced, with her getting jobs in several black clubs. In 1915 she was hired by the Panama Café, one of Chicago’s top spots with a largely white clientele. She became immensely popular, even to the point that some composers paid her to introduce their songs. Among the most interesting were when W.C. Handy asking ...
She was an active and industrious performer, often singing at several clubs or shows at the same time. She did several recordings under different names, recording for the Biltmore label as Alberta Prime, the Gennett label as Josephine Beatty, and the OKeh, Victor, and Columbia labels as Alberta Hunter. In the 1920s Hunter performed in vaudeville on...
Back in New York in the early 1950s, Hunter again started performing at clubs and in plays, but her career was waning. She joined a church and started doing volunteer work at the Joint Diseases Hospital in Harlem and was named Volunteer of the Year in 1956. She was devastated by the death of her mother in 1954. She realized that she needed to do so...
Albums
Young Alberta Hunter: The Twenties, Stash. Classic Alberta Hunter: The Thirties, Stash. The Legendary Alberta Hunter: The London Sessions—1934, DRG. Songs We Taught Your Mother, Prestige/Bluesville. Alberta Hunter with Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders, Riverside. Remember My Name(original sound track recording), Juke Box. Amtrak Blues, Columbia. The Glory of Alberta Hunter, Columbia. Look for the Silver Lining, Columbia.
Singles
Bring Back the Joys, Black Swan, 1921. After All These Tears, Paramount, 1922. Chirping The Blues, Paramount, 1922. Down Hearted Blues, Paramount, 1922. Bleeding Heart Blues, Paramount, 1923. Old Fashioned Love, Paramount, 1924. Wasn’t It Nice, OKeh, 1926. Beale Street Blues, Victor, 1927. Gimmie All the Love You Got, Columbia, 1929. Second Hand Man, ARC, 1935. You Can’t Tell the Difference After Dark, ARC, 1935. Boogie Woogie Swing, Bluebird, 1940.
Other
Alberta Hunter: Jazz at the Smithsonian(video), Sony Corporation, 1982.
Books
Harris, Sheldon, Blues Who’s Who: a Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers, Arlington House, New Rochelle, NY, 1979. Harrison, Daphne, Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1988. Santelli, Robert, The Big Book of Blues, Penguin Books, New York, 1993. Taylor, Frank C., with Gerald Cook, Alberta Hunter, A Celebration in Blues, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1987.
Periodicals
National Review, November 30, 1984, p. 18. USA Today, September 1993, p. 97.
On-line
“Alberta Hunter,” Red Hot Jazz, www.redhotjazz.com/hunter.html (September 26, 2003). “The Classic Blues and the Women Who Sang Them,” Calliope Film Resources, www.calliope.org/blues/blues1.html (September 26, 2003). —Patricia A. Donaldson
1 de dic. de 2023 · Alberta Hunter, pasión por el Blues y la enfermería. 1 diciembre, 2023 Juan Carlos Oblea. La ciudad de Memphis, Tennessee, fue la tierra natal de Alberta Hunter, quien naciera un 1º de abril de 1895. Hija de Charles Hunter, un chofer de pullman y Laura Peterson, una sirvienta, que se casó posteriormente con otro hombre.
Alberta Hunter (1 de abril de 1895 – 17 de octubre de 1984) fue una cantante y compositora estadounidense de jazz y blues desde principios de los años 1920 hasta finales de los 1950. Después de veinte años de trabajar como enfermera, Hunter reanudó su carrera como cantante en 1977. Vida temprana.
Alberta Hunter—Singing the Blues, Entertaining the Troops Her service in World War II, however, is but one of many extraordinary stories of this highly regarded woman’s life. September 5, 2020
