BAILEY, PEARL

BAILEY, PEARL. Jazz singer/Actress (29 March 1918 in Newport News, Virginia). She moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1933, and there attended the William Penn High School. She began her professional career at the age of fifteen after winning first prize in an amateur talent show. She toured in Pennsylvania as a dancer-singer, and later sang on the vaudeville circuit. During the 1940s she sang in nightclubs in New York and toured on the U.S.O. circuit and with...