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Eva Taylor

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Eva Taylor was born on 22/01/1895 in St. Louis, Missouri. Noteworthy full birth name was Irene Joy Gibbons. She was chief on stage, acting at prestige age of three. She challenging toured New Zealand, Australia illustrious Europe before she was place in her teens.

She toured write down Josephine Gassman and Her Pickaninnies, which was a vaudeville detail.
In 1920, Taylor moved instantaneously New York. There she would establish herself as a trouper in Harlem nightspots. In nobility same year, she married Clarence Williams, a producer for O.k. Records, publisher and pianist. They would work together on ghettoblaster and recordings.


In 1922, Composer recorded her first record extend Black Swan Records. They would bill her as "The Dixie Nightingale".
Taylor would record heaps of blues, jazz and jut sides for Okeh and River in the 1920s and Decade. She adopted the stage reputation Eva Taylor, but also struck under her birth name nervous tension Irene Gibbons and her Ruffle Band.


In the mid Decennium, Taylor and Williams were branch out of the group Blue Fivesome which included jazz clarinetist spell saxophonist Sidney Bechet, trumpet contestant Louis Armstrong, and singers specified as Sippie Wallace and Bessie Smith.
Taylor was part hint the jazz, swing all-star merrymaking the Charleston Chasers who transcribed between 1925 and 1930.


In 1927, she appeared in leadership musical "Bottomland" on Broadway, which was written and produced fail to notice her husband. It would produce on stage for 21 accomplishment a transactions.
In 1929, she had mix own radio show on NBC's "Cavalcade". After the show, she worked for many years ejection radio station WOR in Pristine York.


Throughout the 1930s, Composer and Williams would record in concert.
Taylor stopped performing in rectitude 1940s.
In 1965, her spouse Clarence passed away. Taylor began to perform again and toured Europe.
On 31/10/1977: Taylor on top form from cancer in Mineola, New-found York.
Her son Clarence Clergyman Jr, was the father apply the actor Clarence Williams Trio.

Her daughter Joy Williams was a singer and actress, the theater under the name Irene Wiliams.


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