Stella Brooks
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Stella Brooks
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Stella Brooks was an American jazz vocalist. Brooks began singing in San Francisco early in the 1930s. She moved to New York City in 1937, where she sang in the ensembles of Art Hodes, Sidney Bechet, Joe Sullivan, Georg Brunis and Frank Newton among others. She played at the New York Town Hall in 1946. During this time she befriended Tennessee Williams and Billie Holiday; she was sometimes called "The white Billie Holiday". Williams wrote about Brooks in his memoirs. Brooks's career faded in the
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American jazz musician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Brooks
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2022-02-21T02:19:13Z
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