Joséphine Baker / Josephine Baker
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Biography
[Edit]Born into poverty in St. Louis, dancer and singer Josephine Baker progressed from vaudeville to New York theater to the Parisian cabaret scene and became the toast of Europe before the age of 21. Though her later career wasn't quite able to handle such an early peak, Baker spent much of her life working tirelessly against prejudice, during World War II in Europe and the civil rights era in America. She's still one of the most famous expatriates in American history, perfectly epitomizing the hedonistic abandon of the Jazz Age in Paris.
Born Freda Josephine McDonald on June 3, 1906, Baker spent a hardscrabble childhood in the slums of St. Louis. After a successful audition at a local vaudeville theater, she left home at the age of 13, waitressing most of the time and working on the stage whenever she could get there. By 1920, she was married and divorced and married again — the second time to Willie Baker, from whom she took the name she used on stage. Baker finally caught her big break one year later while dancing in the chorus for Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake's all-black revue Shuffle Along. A frenetic dancer and relentless on-stage clown, she quickly attracted notice and was tapped for a bigger part in another Sissle/Blake production, 1924's Chocolate Dandies. The show made her a star in New York and she became big in Harlem as well with performances at The Cotton Club and The Plantation Club, among others. In 1925, she moved to Paris with the American production La Revue Nègre. Baker's exotic dancing, uninhibited sexuality, and negligible attire — which included a skirt of feathers — suited the Continent much more than America, and she became an overnight sensation. Soon, she'd opened her own club (Chez Josephine) and starred in her first movie, the naturally exotic 1927 film La Sirene des Tropiques.
During the early '30s, Josephine Baker made her first studio recordings, though her extroverted on-stage personality froze slightly with an audience of engineers. She starred in two more films, Zou Zou and Princess Tam-Tam, before returning to America in 1936 to star in Ziegfeld's Follies with Bob Hope and Fanny Brice. The act floundered, however, as Baker was subjected to a double dose of discrimination; cultural conservatives railed against the show's promiscuity, while many hotels and restaurants refused entrance to the star of the show. When Brice fell ill, temporarily halting the revue, Baker broke her contract and fled to Paris. There she became a naturalized French citizen after marrying the sugar magnate Jean Lion, though his status as a French Jew exposed the couple to additional discrimination when the Nazis invaded two years later.
Perhaps more eager than most to prevent the oppressive Nazi regime sweeping Europe, Baker joined the French Resistance at an early date and worked throughout World War II to help the Allies. Besides acting as a funnel to get important documents out of France several times, she worked as a sub-lieutenant in the French Air Force's Women's Auxiliary, volunteered for the Red Cross to assist Belgian refugees streaming into France, and undoubtedly boosted troop morale by performing across Northern Africa. After the war, Baker earned several commendations (including the Medal of Resistance and the Cross of the Legion of Honor) and married yet again, to a bandleader named Jo Bouillon. Her return to active entertainment was a bit of a struggle, though, and she worked the cabaret circuit in Paris for several years before performing in Cuba and returning to America yet again. During the early '50s, Baker's fight to spread the gospel of civil rights made headlines when she performed to integrated audiences at a nightclub in Miami and canceled an Atlanta performance after being refused admission to a hotel. She also drew attention making waves in the notoriously segregated entertainment mecca of Las Vegas before mounting a worldwide farewell tour during the early '50s.
Though she was back on-stage by 1959, Josephine Baker spent much of the late '50s and early '60s raising her adopted children, an ethnically diverse clan of a dozen children she named "the rainbow tribe." (In fact, her continual returns to performance during the era were in part a response to the financial burdens of raising so many children.) She participated in the 1963 civil rights march on Washington and gave a series of four concerts at Carnegie Hall to raise funds for the cause. After suffering a heart attack in 1964, however, her performance career practically ended, except for a brief comeback just before her death from a stroke in 1975.
Title: Classics : Joséphine Baker / Classics : Josephine Baker
Artist: Joséphine Baker / Josephine Baker
Genre: Pop
Title: The Fabulous Josephine Baker
Artist: Joséphine Baker / Josephine Baker
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Pop, Acoustic
Title: Anthology: The Deluxe Collection (Remastered) (CD1)
Artist: Joséphine Baker / Josephine Baker
Genre: World Music, Pop
Title: Anthology: The Deluxe Collection (Remastered) (CD2)
Artist: Joséphine Baker / Josephine Baker
Genre: World Music, Pop
Title: La reine des années folles / La reine des annees folles
Artist: Joséphine Baker / Josephine Baker
Genre: Pop
Title: Joséphine Baker In Paris 1959 - 1960 (Original Recordings)
Artist: Joséphine Baker / Josephine Baker
Genre: Pop
Title: Mon Coeur Est Un Oiseau De Lies - Single
Artist: Joséphine Baker / Josephine Baker
Genre: Pop
Title: A Centenary Tribute
Artist: Joséphine Baker / Josephine Baker
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Theatre/Soundtrack, Vocal & Symphonic
Title: La Petite Tonkinoise / J'ai Deux Amours (Remastered)
Artist: Joséphine Baker / Josephine Baker
Genre: Folk
Title: Joséphine Baker / Josephine Baker
Artist: Joséphine Baker / Josephine Baker
Genre: World Music
Title: C'est Ça Le Vrai Bonheur / C'est Cha Le Vrai Bonheur
Artist: Joséphine Baker / Josephine Baker
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Artist: Carmen Miranda, Marlene Dietrich, Joséphine Baker / Josephine Baker
Genre: World Music
Collections
Title: Best of France, Vol. 30
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of Paris, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Les Chansons De Paris
Genre: World Music, Pop
Title: Musicworld - Classic Songs Vol. 12
Genre: Pop
Title: Les Plus Grands Chantent Vincent Scotto
Genre: World Music
Title: Song Shop - Volume 16
Genre: Pop
Title: France Legendary
Genre: Pop
Title: Le temps des colonies
Genre: Pop
Title: Saturday Night Blues, Vol. 2 (Rare Recordings)
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of Paris, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of Paris, Vol. 3
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of Paris, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Mélodies de Paris, vol. 1 / Melodies de Paris, vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: France Music History Vol 1
Genre: World Music
Title: Divas Of France Vol 2
Genre:
Title: Memorias del Aire, Vol.2
Genre: Latin
Title: Musicworld - Classic Songs 4
Genre: Pop
Title: The Singers 5 (Remastered)
Genre: Pop
Title: Le Chant Des Partisans
Genre: World Music
Title: Paris tes chansons en or, vol. 6
Genre: Pop
Title: Frankrijk - De beste liedjes, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Gouden liedjes uit Parijs, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Mélodies de Paris, vol. 46 / Melodies de Paris, vol. 46
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of France, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: French Songs Forever, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Gold songs from Paris, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of Paris, Vol. 92
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of France, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of Paris, Vol. 87
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of Paris, Vol. 88
Genre: Pop
Title: Mélodies de Paris, vol. 44 / Melodies de Paris, vol. 44
Genre: Pop
Title: French Songs Forever, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of Paris, Vol. 70
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of France, Vol. 6
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of Paris, Vol. 77
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of Paris, Vol. 75
Genre: Pop
Title: In 50 Jahren Ist Alles Vorbei Vol. 2
Genre: World Music, Folk
Title: De Bons Souvenirs… / De Bons Souvenirs...
Genre: World Music, Pop
Title: Chansons Erotiques
Genre: World Music
Title: Song Mix (10)
Genre: Pop
Title: Memoire De La Chanson Francaise De 1930 A 1939 - Vol 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Those Good Old Songs - Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Chansons D'afrique, Exotiques Et Coloniales
Genre: World Music
Title: From Paris... With Love
Genre: World Music, Pop
Title: Best of Paris, Vol. 80
Genre: Pop
Title: French Kissing - Classic Love Songs from France
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of Paris, Vol. 83
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of Paris, Vol. 82
Genre: Pop
Title: French Songs Forever, Vol. 3
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of Paris, Vol. 81
Genre: Pop
Title: Divas Of France Vol 1
Genre:
Title: Chansons inoubliables, vol. 3
Genre: Pop
Title: La France aux chansons, Vol. 18
Genre: Pop
Featuring albums
Title: The Comedian Harmonists: Complete Recordings (1935-1939)
Artist: Comedian Harmonists
Genre: Jazz, Rock, World Music, Pop
Title: Grands Succès : Vincent Scotto / Grands Succes : Vincent Scotto
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Pop
Title: Schlager und Filmmelodien von Walter Jurmann, Vol. 1
Artist: Walter Jurmann
Genre: Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Midnight in Paris (Music from the Motion Picture)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Woody Allen - Music from His Movies, Vol. 5
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Beginners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Les Jours heureux de la Libération / Les Jours heureux de la Liberation
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Pop
Title: Les Congés Payés en 24 chansons / Les Conges Payes en 24 chansons
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Pop
Title: Les grands crus français, vol. 4 / Les grands crus francais, vol. 4
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Pop
Title: Les grands crus français, vol. 2 / Les grands crus francais, vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Pop