11 Facts About Ethel Azama

Ethel Azama was an American jazz and popular singer and recording artist.

Ethel Azama sang regularly in nightclubs and other concert venues between the mid-1950s and 1984.

Ethel Azama started her professional career in 1955 as an emcee at the Oasis nightclub in Honolulu.

Ethel Azama released the album Exotic Dreams in 1958, which Paul Conrad arranged, on which she sang standards, including "Speak Low" and "Autumn Leaves".

Ethel Azama sang a few hapa-haole numbers and a Japanese folk song on the album.

Ethel Azama made had her singing debut on the American mainland in January 1959 when she appeared at Ye Little Club in Beverly Hills, California.

Ethel Azama appeared in Las Vegas casinos on bills with jazz and standards singer Mel Torme and with the jazz vocal group The Four Freshmen.

Ethel Azama sang several songs on the hour-long special which featured French figure skater Jacqueline Du Bief, Japanese dancer Takeuchi Keigo, and singer-host Johnny Desmond.

Ethel Azama resumed singing in Waikiki Beach nightclubs as a soloist and occasionally paired with local standards singer Jimmy Borges.

Ethel Azama had minor acting roles on several episodes of the television series Hawaii Five-O in the mid-1970s.

Ethel Azama continued to sing on a regular basis in nightclubs and other public venues on Oahu until her sudden death from a cerebral aneurysm in 1984, aged 49.