Eva Taylor
Eva Taylor was born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States on January 22nd, 1895 and is the Blues Singer. At the age of 82, Eva Taylor biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Eva Taylor (January 22, 1895 — October 31, 1977) was an American blues singer and stage actress.
Life and career
Irene Joy Gibbons, a seven-year-old girl from St. Louis, Missouri, was one of seven children. Taylor appeared on stage from the age of three, touring New Zealand, Australia, and Europe before she was in her teens. She also performed extensively with Josephine Gassman and Her Pickaninnies, a vaudeville performer. By 1920, she had settled in New York City. She performed in Harlem's nightpots and established herself as a performer. Clarence Williams, a writer (hired by Okeh Records), a pianist, and a piano player all in a year. The newlyweds worked on radio and recordings together. They appeared together in the 1930s. They were among the group Blue Five in the mid-1920s, which included jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Sidney Bechet, trumpet virtuoso Louis Armstrong, and Sippie Wallace and Bessie Smith.
Taylor released her first record for Black Swan Records, which referred to her as "The Dixie Nightingale" in 1922. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, she recorded scores of blues, jazz, and famous sides for Okeh and Columbia. Eva Taylor was born on stage, but she appeared in Irene Gibbons and her Jazz Band under her name Eva Taylor.
She was a member of the Charleston Chasers, the name given to a few all-star studio ensembles that appeared between 1925 and 1930. Taylor appeared on Broadway in Bottomland, a musical written and produced by her husband, which ran for twenty-one performances. On NBC's Cavalcade, she had her own radio show in 1929. She then spent many years on radio station WOR in New York (guest on Paul Whiteman's radio show in 1932). Taylor stopped appearing in the 1940s. She toured in Europe in the mid-1960s, after her husband's death.