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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ethel_WatersEthel Waters - Wikipedia

    Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues.

  2. Ethel Waters (born October 31, 1896, Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died September 1, 1977, Chatsworth, California) was an American blues and jazz singer and dramatic actress whose singing, based in the blues tradition, featured her full-bodied voice, wide range, and slow vibrato.

  3. www.imdb.com › name › nm0914083Ethel Waters - IMDb

    Ethel Waters. Actress: Cabin in the Sky. The child of a teenage rape victim, Ethel Waters grew up in the slums of Philadelphia and neighboring cities, seldom living anywhere for more than a few weeks at a time.

  4. Jun 12, 2020 · Ethel Waters found fame and broke barriers as an American blues singer and actress. She started her performance career singing in a nightclub in Baltimore, Maryland. She went on to tour with the Braxton and Nugent vaudeville troupe and to record music.

  5. Ethel Waters (1896–1977) was a blues singer and actress who was the first African American to star in her own television show and to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

  6. Feb 24, 2022 · Despite a long, trailblazing career as a popular singer of jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts, and Oscar and Emmy nominations, Ethel Waters is hardly known or recognized today among younger generations of movie and music lovers.

  7. Jan 5, 2021 · Waters became the first African-American singer to host her own radio show, to appear on television (in 1939), and to star in a TV drama series (in 1950). In Hollywood, she helped the...

  8. Feb 11, 2007 · In 1950, Ethel Waters was the first black American performer to star in her own regular television show, Beulah, but it was the 1961 role in the “Good Night, Sweet Blues” episode of the television series Route 66 that earned her an Emmy award.

  9. Now, Ethel Waters, whom African-American audiences had known for years as a singer and bawdy comedian, was about to step in front of an elegant, mostly white Broadway audience for her debut as the leading lady of a dramatic play, Mamba's Daughters.

  10. Jul 22, 2022 · She broke barrier after barrier, becoming the first black woman heard on the radio, the first black singer to perform on television, the first African American to perform in an integrated cast on Broadway, and the first black woman to perform in a lead dramatic role on Broadway.