HOPKINS, LINDA

HOPKINS, LINDA. Gospel/blues singer (14 December 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana). At the age of three she began to sing in a church choir. When she was twelve she was discovered by Mahalia Jackson ; for the next eleven years she sang with the Southern Harp Spiritual Singers as Baby Helen. Thereafter she settled in Oakland, California, where she sang in churches and on radio and directed a youth choir. Later she began singing in nightclubs of Oakland and San Francisco...