Blue Lu Barker

Blue Lu Barker ( born November 13, 1913 in New Orleans as Louisa Dupont; † May 7, 1998 ibid ) was an American jazz and blues singer.

Blue Lu Barker was married since the age of 14 with Danny Barker, with whom she moved to New York City in 1930. In the 1930s and 1940s, she often was with Cab Calloway and Jelly Roll Morton on stage. She made 1938-1939 and then again in the 1940s with the orchestra of her husband recordings in which a session on Charlie Parker was also involved. Their best-known titles were I Got Ways Like The Devil, New Orleans Blues, He Caught The B And O and Do not Make Me High ( 1938 ). The singer could end up only two hits in the Billboard Top 30, in November 1938 " Do not Make Me High " (# 15) for Decca, accompanied by Benny Carter, Buster Bailey, Sam Price, Danny Barker and Wellman Braud, and only again in December 1948 with "A Little Bird Told Me" for Capitol (# 4).

In 1997, she was inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame. Her funeral was televised.