Leslie Uggams
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Biography
[Edit]A singer and actress perhaps best known for her work in the landmark television miniseries Roots, Leslie Uggams was born May 25, 1943, in New York City. The product of a showbiz family — her father sang with the Hall Johnson Choir and her mother was a chorus dancer — she began her own career while still a child, making her TV debut at the age of six on the series Beulah. A year later, Uggams began performing regularly at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem, opening for such legends as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dinah Washington; she subsequently attended the Professional Children's School of New York, and frequently guested on television variety programs including The Milton Berle Show, The Arthur Godfrey Show, and Your Show of Shows. At the age of 12, Uggams retired from performing; her absence from the spotlight was relatively brief, however, and three years later she appeared as a vocalist on the TV quiz show Name That Tune.
While a student at Juilliard, Uggams was tapped to join the cast of Sing Along with Mitch, becoming the first female singer and the first African-American talent to join the Mitch Miller-hosted variety program; in 1962, she also made her on-screen film debut with a cameo in Two Weeks in Another Town, and after signing to Columbia scored a hit single with "Morgan." She spent the next several years alternating nightclub dates with stage performances, also appearing in the theatrical production The Boyfriend. In 1968, Uggams was chosen to replace Lena Horne in the lead role in the Broadway musical Hallelujah, Baby!; the performance earned her a Tony Award and culminated her rise to stardom. In 1970, she was named the host of her own CBS variety series, the first black female since Hazel Scott a decade earlier to be given such an opportunity; however, The Leslie Uggams Show proved short-lived, one in a long list of sacrifices to the ratings juggernaut known as Bonanza.
The early '70s marked a decline in Uggams' fortunes; outside of an appearance in the all-star 1972 film Skyjacked, she enjoyed little of the same success of recent years, and a move from Columbia to Atlantic did little to resuscitate her singing career. In 1977, however, she returned to television in the slavery saga Roots, with her superb performance as Kizzy earning an Emmy nomination; two years later, Uggams earned more kudos for her work in another miniseries, Backstairs at the White House, and in 1983 won an Emmy as co-host of the short-lived NBC series Fantasy. Later in the decade, Uggams returned to Broadway, starring in the musicals Blues in the Night and Jerry's Girls. In 1987, she toured with Peter Nero and Mel Tormé in The Great Gershwin Concert, and in 1988 starred in the Lincoln Center production of Anything Goes. After touring during the early '90s in Stringbean, a musical based on the career of Ethel Waters, in 1996 Uggams joined the cast of the hit daytime soap opera All My Children.
Collections
Title: The Party's Over: Broadway Sings the Blues
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: There's No Business Like Show Business
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Soul 150 Original Moments
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Memories Are Made of This, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Popcorn Kernels 5
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Jule Styne in Hollywood
Genre:
Title: Angel's Serenade
Genre: Traditional Pop Music
Title: Music & The Moon Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Hallelujah, Baby! (Original Soundtrack)
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Soul
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Northern Soul The Collection (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Still Paying Our Dues ~ Atlantic Northern Soul
Genre: Soul
Title: 100 Hits: Musicals
Genre: Pop
Title: The Greatest Mod And Northern Soul 4CD (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock & Roll, Easy Listening
Title: Greatest Mod & Northern Soul (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues, Jazz, Disco, Pop
Title: 100 Greatest Northern Soul (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: My Love Is Getting Stronger: Northern Soul Classics
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Disco, Funk
Title: 100 Cool R&B Top Hits (CD1)
Genre: Soul
Featuring albums
Title: The Party's Over: Broadway Sings The Blues
Artist: Stephen Sondheim Richard Rodgers
Genre: Classical
Title: Showstoppers - A Collections of Timeless Hits from the Musicals
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Hollywood Swing & Jazz (Motion Picture Soundtrack Anthology)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Jazz, Theatre/Soundtrack