Stella Brooks

Stella Brooks ( * November 24, 1915 in Seattle, † December 13, 2002 in San Francisco) was an American jazz singer.

Stella Brooks grew up in San Francisco and began there in the 1930s, a career as a singer. In 1937 she went to New York; there came her most famous photographs in which she was accompanied, among others, Sidney Bechet, Frank Newton, George Brunies, George Wettling and Joe Sullivan. Their most successful song was " (I'm ) A Little Piece of Leather"; Another well-known titles of this period were " As Long as I Live, I'll Never Be the Same " and " Ballin 'the Jack". They appeared on their album Songs of the 1940s. Then they went back to San Francisco and beat with short appearances by film (including double for Elizabeth Taylor) and as a hairdresser.

In her unconventional style she looked at herself rather than Diseuse because as a singer. She was in the forties as " white Billie Holiday ." For Billie Holiday, she was to the jazz newspaper (11/ 2003), the only white singer: " I like to listen to. "

Auswahldiskographie

• Stella Brooks, Greta Keller: Diverse Songs and Moods of the 1940s ( Folkways, released 1981)