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Josephine Baker

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Also known as Freda Josephine Baker, Joséphine Baker

American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)

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Josephine Baker was a French female vocalist and cabaret performer whose career spanned from 1922 to 1975. Born on June 3, 1906, and deceased on April 12, 1975, she was associated with jazz, chanson, and French musical traditions. Her artistic output included works such as *Josephine Baker vue par la presse française*, *Fearless and Free*, *Memoiren*, *Paměti Josefiny Bakerové*, and *La tribu arc-en-ciel*.

Baker had twelve children during her lifetime. Her musical style has been categorized under American, cabaret, and French genres. She is referenced by 795 other encyclopedia articles, and her work has been noted in various publications.

Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1906
Died
1975
Works
15

Top works

  • Josephine Baker vue par la presse française
  • Fearless and Free
  • Memoiren
  • Paměti Josefiny Bakerové
  • La tribu arc-en-ciel

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
France
Active from
1906-06-03
Active to
1975-04-12
americancabaretfrench

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
50,168
Total plays
312,175

Tags

jazzfemale vocalistscabaretfrenchchanson

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Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975), born Freda Josephine McDonald, was an American-French dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus". Although born American, she became a French citizen in 1937. Early life Born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Carrie McDonald. Her father is identified as vaudeville drummer Eddie Carson by the official biography of her estate. She was of mixed ethnic background: Native American/African American. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Josephine+Baker">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,938x

  2. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

    · 2022 · cited 13,840x

  3. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,685x

  4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,989x

  5. Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty*

    · 2016 · cited 10,622x

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Music

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Quotes

  • “I believe in action. … I believe in doing rather than talking. All my life I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice. This is why I traveled all over the world to adopt 11 youngsters.”
  • “Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Freda Josephine Baker (née McDonald; June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975), also spelled Joséphine Baker, was an American and French dancer, singer, and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France. She was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 French silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant.

During her early career, Baker was among the most celebrated performers to headline the revues of the Folies Bergère in Paris. Her performance in its 1927 revue Un vent de folie caused a sensation in the city. Her costume, consisting only of a short skirt of artificial bananas and a beaded necklace, became an iconic image and a symbol both of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. Baker was celebrated by artists and intellectuals of the era, who variously dubbed her the "Black Venus", the "Black Pearl", the "Bronze Venus", and the "Creole Goddess". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she renounced her U.S. citizenship and became a French national after her marriage to French industrialist Jean Lion in 1937. She adopted 12 children, whom she referred to as the Rainbow Tribe, and raised them in France.

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

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