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DescriptionEvelyn Dove embraced the worlds of jazz, musical theatre and, mostimportantly, cabaret, in a career spanning five decades from the 1920sthrough to the 1960s. A black British diva with movie star looks, shecaptivated audiences and admirers around the world, enjoying the sameappeal as the ‘Forces Sweetheart’ Vera Lynn throughout the Second WorldWar.Refusing to be constrained by her race or middle–class West Africanand English backgrounds, she would perform for infamous Russian leader,Joseph Stalin; become a regular vocalist for the BBC and a celebratedperformer across continental Europe, India and the US.At the height ofher fame in the 1930s, she worked with the pioneers of black Britishtheatre, replacing Josephine Baker as the star attraction in a revue atthe Casino de Paris and scandalizing her family by appearing on stagesemi-nude.This is a celebration of an extraordinary career punctuatedwith vertiginous highs and profound lows, and places Dove in historicalcontext with artists of her time, such as Adelaide Hall, Dame Cleo Laineand Dame Shirley Bassey.Stephen Bourne has specialised in black Britishhistories since 1991. He has written over 15 books, including theacclaimed Black in the British Frame, Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights andSweet Music and The Motherland Calls: Britain’s Black Servicemen andWomen 1939-1945. Stephen received the 2015 Southwark Arts Forum Awardfor Literature for Black Poppies: Britain’s Black Community and theGreat War. In 2017 he was awarded the Screen Nation Special Award and anHonorary degree from Southbank University for over 20 years in hisfield. He is a regular contributor to BBC documentaries and has writtenfor many publications, including The Voice, The Independent, BBC HistoryMagazine and History Today.
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