Today is the birthday of jazz singer, dancerĂ‚Â and trumpet player Valaida Snow (1904-1956). Raised in a musical family by a college-educated mother in Chatanooga, TN, she was mistress of ten different musical instruments. She first went onstage at age four in an act called Snow’s Gold Dust Twins, and toured the black vaudeville circuits and […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:16AM on June 2, 2013