Women / Persons ~ P24063

Alberta Hunter

Alternate Names:
  • May Alix
  • Josephine Beatty
Gender: Female
Life Dates: 1 April 1895 - 17 October 1984
Types:
  • American, African
  • American (US)
  • Composer
  • Medicine, nurse
  • Performer, singer
Note: Was inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame in 2011; enjoyed popular singing career in the 1920s and 1930s then left the profession to become a nurse; resumed singing in the late 1970s until her death.
persons with degrees of separation from Alberta Hunter