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Aida Ward
American jazz musician (1900–1984) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aida Ward (February 11, 1900 – June 23, 1984[1]) was an American jazz singer. Born in Washington, D.C., Ward rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s in New York, on Broadway and at Harlem's Cotton Club.[2] She appeared alongside Adelaide Hall and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the hit Broadway musical revue Blackbirds of 1928.[3]
Throughout the 1930s, Ward appeared regularly at the Cotton Club, performing with Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway.[4] She was associated with the introduction of the songs "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"[5] and "I've Got the World on a String"[6] at the Cotton Club in 1931-2. She also starred at Harlem's Apollo Theater.
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- Adelaide Hall
- Cotton Club
- Williams, Iain Cameron (2002). Underneath A Harlem Moon ISBN 0-8264-5893-9
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