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Adelaide Hall
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Adelaide Hall
Adelaide Louise Hall
(20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her long career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death and she was a major figure in the
Harlem Renaissance
. Hall entered the
Guinness Book of World Records
in 2003 as the world's most enduring recording artist having released material over eight consecutive decades. She performed with major artists such as
Art Tatum
Ethel Waters
,
Josephine Baker
,
Louis Armstrong
,
Lena Horne
,
Cab Calloway
,
Fela Sowande
Rudy Vallee
and
Jools Holland
, and recorded as a jazz singer with
Duke Ellington
(with whom she made her most famous recording, "
Creole Love Call
" in 1927) and with
Fats Waller
.
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