Helen Humes. Appearing on Tv-show 'The World of John Hammond', Chicago, 1975

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Helen Humes appearing on Tv-show "The World of John Hammond", Chicago, 1975.

Helen Humes was an American jazz and blues singer. Humes was a teenage blues singer, a vocalist with Count Basie´s band, a saucy R&B diva, and a mature interpreter of the classic popular song. Humes was introduced to music in the church, singing in the choir and getting piano and organ lessons given at Sunday school by Bessie Allen, who taught music to any child who wanted to learn. Humes began occasionally playing the piano in a small and locally traveling dance band, the Dandies. This constant involvement in music would lead to her singing career in the mid-1920s.

b. June 23, 1913 in Louisville, Kentucky.
d. September 9, 1981 in Santa Monica California.

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