Annette Hanshaw

vocals · 1901–1985 · New York

New York singer of the Jazz Age, active from 1926 to 1937 and a major radio star. Her recordings serve as the soundtrack of Sita Sings the Blues (2008), which revived interest in her work.

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Styles

• Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese
• Jazz in film and on screen

Landmark tracks

• Mean to Me (1929)

Sources

• Source

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