Ethel Waters  Waters was one of the most popular African-American singers and actresses of the 1920s. She moved to New York in 1919 after touring in vaudeville shows as a singer and a dancer. She made her recording debut in 1921 on...

Blues Lyrics On Line: ETHEL WATERS  This page contains lyrics to the following song(s Get Up Off Your Knees Kind Lovin Blues Organ Grinder Blues There'll Be Some Changes Made Get Up Off Your Knees This vaudeville-type song was written by Clarence Williams who accompanied Ethel...

Ethel Waters  Waters was the first black Superstar an innovator who opened all the theatrical doors hitherto closed to black performers of her day, to attain the towering position she reached as a headliner. She fought hard and long to achieve solo...

Songbirds: Ethel Waters  Waters was the most confident-sounding voice to emanate from black America during the 1920s and 1930s. The self-assurance Waters possessed, however, was gained at great expense. Notorious for her unbridled rage, she once became so jealous of the attention paid...

Ethel Waters  Christian and secular singers, was born October 31, 1900, in Chester, Pennsylvania. Her mother was 12 years old when she was raped at knife point by a 23-year-old mulatto, who violated her because she was a virgin. Throughout her life...

Ethel Waters  American singer and actress who brought black urban blues into the mainstream. Ethel Waters was born to a 12 year old mother, Louise Anderson, who had been raped by a white man, John Waters. Although she was raised by her...

Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit Ethel Waters  By the age of eight she had a job as a domestic worker and was married by the age of 13. She first worked on the stage at the Lincoln Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland, where she sang St. Louis Blues...

Ethel Waters: Blackbird of the Blues (RETRO Magazine)  Philadelphia chambermaid who was urged up on stage by friends one fateful amateur night on Halloween in 1911. It also happened to be her fifteenth birthday. Warbling St Louis Blues to the crowded theatre while wearing a mask to conceal...

Waters, Ethel  Waters was also the first African-American woman to be given equal billing with white stars in Broadway shows, and to play leading roles in Hollywood films. Once she had established herself as one of America's highest paid entertainers she demanded,...