1. Eva Taylor was an American blues singer and stage actress.
11 Facts About Eva Taylor
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Eva Taylor was born Irene Joy Gibbons in St Louis, Missouri, as one of twelve children.
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On stage from the age of three, Taylor toured New Zealand, Australia and Europe before she was in her teens.
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Eva Taylor toured extensively with Josephine Gassman and Her Pickaninnies, a vaudeville act.
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Eva Taylor adopted the stage name Eva Taylor, but she worked under her birth name in Irene Gibbons and her Jazz Band.
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Eva Taylor was part of the Charleston Chasers, the name given to a few all-star studio ensembles who recorded between 1925 and 1930.
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In 1927, Eva Taylor appeared on Broadway in Bottomland, a musical written and produced by her husband, which lasted for twenty-one performances.
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Eva Taylor then worked for many years on radio station WOR, in New York.
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Eva Taylor returned to performing in the mid-1960s, after her husband's death, and toured in Europe.
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Eva Taylor died from cancer in 1977 in Mineola, New York.
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Eva Taylor was interred next to her husband, Clarence Williams, under the name Irene Joy Williams in Saint Charles Cemetery, in Farmingdale, New York.