Singer who had own radio series and was nominated for Olivier and Tony awards is second black woman to be so honouredAn English Heritage blue plaque has been unveiled in London to the velvet-voiced singer Elisabeth Welch, American-born but an adopted Londoner for 70 years, only the second black woman so honoured.The campaign to mark Ovington Court flats in Kensington " home of a singer for whom Cole Porter and Ivor N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PM on March 1, 2012