The musician and dancer’s home of 27 years in Kensington, west London, will be marked with a commemorative plaque by English Heritage.
Musician and dancer Adelaide Hall – hailed as the “real first lady of jazz” – is to be honoured with a blue plaque at her London home.
During the Second World War, she worked for the Entertainments National Service Association and she performed in air raid shelters and hospitals, before becoming one of the first artists into Germany after the liberation. “Having known her, I don’t doubt that she would be absolutely thrilled to bits to get a blue plaque. I’m sure she is smiling wherever she is.”
“She’s got this global appeal, coming from America, and musically people are referencing her in their music and sometimes they don’t even know that they are.“If they heard Duke Ellington’s Creole Love Call, just hearing her scatting on that song, through to all of the amazing other things that she’s done.
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