Joséphine Baker's life
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- Josephine Baker, original name Freda Josephine McDonald, was born on the 3rd of June 1906, at St. Louis,Missouri.Baker grew up fatherless and in poverty with her three siblings. Between the ages of 8 and 10 she was out of school, helping to support her family.
- I wish I could go back to school one day.
- WOW !
- Dancing was her escape, and at sixteen, she joined a street dance troupe. She left her husband, Willis Wells, a musician, to try her luck in New York, but kept her name. She joined two Broadway troupes. Spotted by a producer, she was persuaded to go to Paris with Sidney Bechet.
- She is so talented !
- AMAZING !
- PERFECT !
- She arrived in Paris at the age of 19. She quickly became the star of the "Revue Nègre" at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées. In 1927, at the Folies Bergères, she caused a scandal wearing a simple banana belt. At the age of 20, the first black star in France opened her own cabaret in Montmartre, "Chez Joséphine". Her garçonne hairstyle was widely adopted. Her first song, "J'ai deux amours", established her as a diva.
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