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Eartha Kitt

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Eartha Kitt

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Also known as Eartha Mae Kitt

American singer and actress (1927–2008)

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Eartha Kitt was an American female artist whose work began in 1943. She is recognized in the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection. Her musical genres include jazz, soul, lounge, and easy listening. She is also associated with the tag "diva."

Kitt authored several works, including *Eartha Quake*, *Rejuvenate! : (It's Never Too Late)*, *The owl and the pussycat*, *Peg*, and *Confessions of a sex kitten*. She had one child. She died on December 25, 2008.

Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
11

Top works

  • Eartha Quake
  • Rejuvenate! : (It's Never Too Late)
  • The owl and the pussycat
  • Peg
  • Confessions of a sex kitten

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1927-01-17
Active to
2008-12-25
2008 universal fire victimamericandeath by cancereasy listeningjazztraditional pop

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,142,715
Total plays
6,097,321

Tags

jazzfemale vocalistssoulloungediva

Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 - December 25, 2008), was an American actress, singer, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her 1953 Christmas song Santa Baby. Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world". She took on the role of Catwoman for the fourth season of the 1960s Batman TV series, replacing Julie Newmar who was unavailable for the final series. Born in tiny North, South Carolina to Mamie Kitt, who was of Cherokee and African-American descent <a hre

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Impaired Mitochondrial Activity in the Insulin-Resistant Offspring of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

    · 2004 · cited 1,807x

  2. Mitochondrial Dysfunction in the Elderly: Possible Role in Insulin Resistance

    · 2003 · cited 1,769x

  3. Transfer of CVD-Grown Monolayer Graphene onto Arbitrary Substrates

    · 2011 · cited 1,363x

  4. Acetate mediates a microbiome–brain–β-cell axis to promote metabolic syndrome

    · 2016 · cited 1,197x

  5. The role of hepatic lipids in hepatic insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes

    · 2014 · cited 1,014x

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Quotes

  • “"It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit."”
  • “"I fall in love myself, and I want someone to share it with me. I want someone to share me, with me."”
  • “"You should go to America. That's where my son is. That's where your future is, not Myra Menke. Her head's as empty as a flowerpot."”
  • “"If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs, / The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies. / The wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, / And cries to the moon, / If only if only."”
  • “"If you forget to come back for Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity."”
  • “"It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you."”

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Encyclopedic overview

Eartha Mae Kitt (née Keith; January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She was known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est si bon" and the Christmas novelty song "Santa Baby".

Kitt began her career in 1942 and appeared in the 1945 original Broadway theatre production of the musical Carib Song. In the early 1950s, Kitt had six US Top 30 entries, including "Uska Dara" (1953) and "I Want to Be Evil" (1953). Her other recordings include the UK Top 10 song "Under the Bridges of Paris" (1954), "Just an Old Fashioned Girl" (1956) and "Where Is My Man" (1983). Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world". Kitt starred as Catwoman in the third and final season of the television series Batman in 1967.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eartha Kitt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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