Vanity
Released on Vanity (1951)
Covered by
(10 artists)
- Aliases
-
Hadda Brooks Trio
- Real name
- Hattie L. Hapgood
- Born
- October 29, 1916
- Died
- November 21, 2002
- Country
- United States
- IPI
-
00243697053
2 works
- Affiliation
- BMI
- Comments
- Pianist and singer active in boogie-woogie, blues, jazz and R&B. Brroks was also a composer. In 1957, Brooks was the first African-American to host her own television show, which ran on KCOP in Los Angeles. She took a hiatus of some 30 years from recording, resuming her recording career in 1994.
