Alberta HUNTER

⬇️ ALBERTA HUNTER ⬇️

DISCOGRAPHY 1930-2017 (26CD/DVD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

       

Alberta Hunter (April 1, 1895 – October 17, 1984) was an American jazz singer and songwriter who had a successful career from the early 1920s to the late 1950s, and then stopped performing. After twenty years of working as a nurse, in 1977 Hunter successfully resumed her popular singing career until her death.

Hunter was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Laura Peterson, who worked as a maid in a Memphis brothel, and Charles Hunter, a Pullman porter. Hunter said she never knew her father. She attended Grant Elementary School, off Auction Street, which she called Auction School, in Memphis. She attended school until around age 15.

Hunter had a difficult childhood. Her father left when she was a child, and to support the family her mother worked as a servant in a brothel in Memphis, although she married again in 1906. Hunter was not happy with her new family and left for Chicago, Illinois, around the age of 11, in the hopes of becoming a paid singer; she had heard that it paid 10 dollars per week. Instead of finding a job as a singer she had to earn money by working at a boardinghouse that paid six dollars a week as well as room and board. Hunter's mother left Memphis and moved in with her soon afterwards.....

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1962-Chicago The Living Legends @FLAC+

1982-The Glory of...Alberta Hunter @FLAC+

2017-Now I'm Satisfied (Remastered) @[FLAC

2017-The Alberta Hunter Collection (1921-40) (4CD) @FLAC

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