Ethel Waters [98570] Gender: Female Popularity: 0.5114 Birthplace: Chester, Pennsylvania, USA Birthday: 1896-10-31 Deathday: 1977-09-01 Age: 80 years Movies: 25 Links: Homepage, IMDB Biography: Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Her best-known recordings includes, "Dinah", "Birmingham Bertha", "Stormy Weather" "Hottentot Potentate", and "Cabin in the Sky", as well as her version of the spiritual, "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ethel Waters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. Jazz Voice - The2006-12-04 Broadway: The Go2003-04-03 Blues Masters1999-01-01 Wild Women Don't1989-01-01 That's Entertain1976-05-16 Brother, Can You1975-08-06 Black Shadows on1975-04-19 The Men Who Made1973-01-01 The Sound and th1959-03-27 The Heart is a R1958-01-01 Saturday Spectac1956-10-27 Carib Gold1956-09-30 The Member of th1952-12-25 Pinky1949-09-28 Soundies Festiva1945-01-01 The Voice That T1943-10-16 Stage Door Cante1943-06-24 Cabin in the Sky1943-03-24 Cairo1942-08-17 Tales of Manhatt1942-08-05 Let My People Li1939-03-10 Gift of Gab1934-09-01 Bubbling Over1934-04-19 Rufus Jones for 1933-09-09 On With the Show1929-07-13