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Adelaide Hall (1901 – 1993) was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death. Early in her career, she was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance; she became based in the UK after 1938. Hall entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 2003 as the world's most enduring recording artist, having released material over eight consecutive decades. She performed with major artists such as Art Tatum, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, Fela Sowande, Rudy Vallee, and Jools Holland, and recorded as a jazz singer with Duke Ellington (with whom she made her most famous recording, "Creole Love Call" in 1927) and with Fats Waller.Along with Louis Armstrong, she pioneered scat singing and is widely acknowledged as one of the world's first jazz singers, regarded as such by Ella Fitzgerald. Hall was the first female vocalist to sing and record with Duke Ellington. She holds the accolade of being the 20th century's most enduring female recording artist, her recording career having spanned eight decades. In 1941, Hall replaced Gracie Fields as Britain's highest paid female entertainer.
Adelaide is a small city in Australia.
A famous bearer of this name is Australian actress Adelaide Kane. She is known for playing Ivy/Drizella in Once Upon a Time, and Mary, Queen of Scots in Reign.
Adelaide is an aunt to Elsie Dinsmore in the book series of the same name.
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864) was an English poet and philanthropist who worked on the behalf of unemployed women and the homeless.
Adelaide Avery Claflin (1846-1931) became an ordained Unitarian minister in Pennsylvania in 1897. She fought for women's legal right to vote in the US.
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort to King William IV of the United Kingdom, is a notable bearer.
Some duchess in Versaille had this name too. I remember seeing it on a painting while visiting there.
Adelaide of Savoy (or Adelaide of Maurienne) (Italian: Adelaide di Savoia or Adelasia di Moriana, French: Adélaïde or Adèle de Maurienne) (1092 – 18 November 1154) was the second spouse but first Queen consort of Louis VI of France.
The wife of King William IV of the United Kingdom was named Adelaide.
Adelaide Eugenia Bankhead was the mother of American actress Tallulah Bankhead.
Adelaide was the daughter of King Hugh Capet of France and his wife Adelaide.
Beethoven wrote a beautiful song, "Adelaide," set to a poem by Friedrich von Matthisson. (It uses the German pronunciation of the name, of course.)
Miss Adelaide from the musical "Guys and Dolls"!
I really like the name. I heard it in the movie "Anne of Avonlea" being the name of Morgan Harris' passed wife.
Adelaide Eliza Scott Ironside (17 November 1831 - 15 April 1867) was an Australian artist. Adelaide was successful in Rome and London, and represented New South Wales at the London Great Exhibition of 1862.
The inventor of the poetry type called "cinquain" is named Adelaide Crapsey.
Rachel Griffiths has a daughter named Adelaide Rose.
The band Anberlin has a song called Adelaide.
Not only a city in Australia but also a street in Toronto.
One of the contestants in the reality show about 20's vs. 40's women competing for a man, is named this.
Adelaide is Australia's fifth largest city and capital of the South Australia territory.
Adelaide is actually the capital of the state of South Australia, Australia (it is not a territory at all!)
The city itself was named after Queen Adelaide and was the only Australian city not colonised with prisoners from England.
This is completely wrong - Australia's capital city of Canberra and the vast majority of Australian cities and towns - like Melbourne and Darwin - did not use convict labour. Many regions weren't even settled by Europeans until after convict transportation to Australia was banned on the east coast in the 1840s and the west in the 1860s.The Colony of South Australia, did however ban the use of convict labour from its founding - as it was too close to slavery for the settlers' 'Enlightenment ideals' - so Adelaide can make that claim.
The character Adelaide of Guys and Dolls is a famous bearer. When I think of this name, I think of that character: loud, not very bright, but cute!

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