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Ethel Waters
2009-10-20 00:00:00
"Sweet Mama String Bean" Background information:<br /><br />Born October 31, 1896(1896-10-31) Chester, Pennsylvania, USA<br />Died September 1, 1977 (aged 80)<br />Chatsworth, California, USA<br />Genre(s): Jazz<br />Occupation(s): Actress, singer<br />Instrument(s): Vocals<br />Years active: 1925-1977<br />Associated acts:<br />Bessie Smith,<br />Alberta Hunter,<br />Josephine Baker<br /><br />Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 - September 1, 1977) was an Oscar-nominated American blues vocalist and actress. She was the second African American to ever be nominated for an Academy Award. <br /><br />Waters frequently performed jazz, big band, gospel, and<br />popular music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts.<br /><br />Her best-known recording was her version of the spiritual,<br />"His Eye is on the Sparrow." <br /><br />BIOGRAPHY:<br /><br />Early life: <br />Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, to a thirteen-year-old mother who had been raped. She was raised in a violent, impoverished Philadelphia ward. Even though she was eventually adopted by her grandmother, she never lived in the same place for more than 15 months. She said of her difficult childhood, "I never was a child. I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family." Despite this unpromising start, Waters demonstrated early the love of language that so distinguishes her work. Moreover, according to her biographer Rosetta Reitz, Waters' birth in the North and her peripatetic life exposed her to many cultures. For the rest of her life, this lent to her interpretation of southern blues a unique sensibility that pulled in eclectic influences from across American music.<br /><br /><br />Waters married at the age of 13, but soon left her abusive husband, and became a maid in a Philadelphia hotel, working for US$4.75 per week. On her 17th birthday, on Halloween night in 1917, she attended a party in costume at a nightclub on Juniper Street. She was persuaded to sing two songs, and wowed the audience so much that she was offered professional work at the Lincoln Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland. She later recalled that she earned the rich sum of ten dollars a week, but her managers cheated her out of the tips her admirers threw on the stage.<br /><br /> Career: <br /><br />Waters was very talented and had many achievements. After her start in Baltimore, she toured honkytonks in the South. As she described it later, "I used to work from nine until unconscious." Despite her early success, Waters fell on hard times and joined up with a carnival which traveled in freight cars to Chicago, Illinois. She enjoyed her time with the carnival, and recalled, "The roustabouts and the concessionaires were the kind of people I'd grown up with, rough, tough, full of larceny towards s...
2009-10-20 00:00:00
"Sweet Mama String Bean" Background information:<br /><br />Born October 31, 1896(1896-10-31) Chester, Pennsylvania, USA<br />Died September 1, 1977 (aged 80)<br />Chatsworth, California, USA<br />Genre(s): Jazz<br />Occupation(s): Actress, singer<br />Instrument(s): Vocals<br />Years active: 1925-1977<br />Associated acts:<br />Bessie Smith,<br />Alberta Hunter,<br />Josephine Baker<br /><br />Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 - September 1, 1977) was an Oscar-nominated American blues vocalist and actress. She was the second African American to ever be nominated for an Academy Award. <br /><br />Waters frequently performed jazz, big band, gospel, and<br />popular music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts.<br /><br />Her best-known recording was her version of the spiritual,<br />"His Eye is on the Sparrow." <br /><br />BIOGRAPHY:<br /><br />Early life: <br />Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, to a thirteen-year-old mother who had been raped. She was raised in a violent, impoverished Philadelphia ward. Even though she was eventually adopted by her grandmother, she never lived in the same place for more than 15 months. She said of her difficult childhood, "I never was a child. I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family." Despite this unpromising start, Waters demonstrated early the love of language that so distinguishes her work. Moreover, according to her biographer Rosetta Reitz, Waters' birth in the North and her peripatetic life exposed her to many cultures. For the rest of her life, this lent to her interpretation of southern blues a unique sensibility that pulled in eclectic influences from across American music.<br /><br /><br />Waters married at the age of 13, but soon left her abusive husband, and became a maid in a Philadelphia hotel, working for US$4.75 per week. On her 17th birthday, on Halloween night in 1917, she attended a party in costume at a nightclub on Juniper Street. She was persuaded to sing two songs, and wowed the audience so much that she was offered professional work at the Lincoln Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland. She later recalled that she earned the rich sum of ten dollars a week, but her managers cheated her out of the tips her admirers threw on the stage.<br /><br /> Career: <br /><br />Waters was very talented and had many achievements. After her start in Baltimore, she toured honkytonks in the South. As she described it later, "I used to work from nine until unconscious." Despite her early success, Waters fell on hard times and joined up with a carnival which traveled in freight cars to Chicago, Illinois. She enjoyed her time with the carnival, and recalled, "The roustabouts and the concessionaires were the kind of people I'd grown up with, rough, tough, full of larceny towards s...
A Case Study of RMTs In EVE Online
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2009-08-29 00:00:00
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of starting an AoE grinding group,
2009-05-05 00:00:00
while the SP provides some support in the form of extra heals and a mana battery, then have all three DPSers do single-target DD on boss fights. I'm planning on being the warlk, whh for the purposes of levelling means I'll be spamming rain of fire on trash, and prov...
2009-05-05 00:00:00
while the SP provides some support in the form of extra heals and a mana battery, then have all three DPSers do single-target DD on boss fights. I'm planning on being the warlk, whh for the purposes of levelling means I'll be spamming rain of fire on trash, and prov...