Elisabeth Welch Soft Lights and Sweet Music

"In 1930s Britain, Ivor Novello wrote songs for her, Paul Robeson was her leading man in films, and she enjoyed popularity as a cabaret star of London's cafe society. In the postwar years, she reigned supreme in sophisticated revues in London's West End. At the age of 81, she returned to the Broadway stage, and her performance of Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood earned her a Tony nomination." "In Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music, Stephen Bourne celebrates the stage, screen, and radio career of this African American actress and singer, who always defied categorization. She did not fit the definition of jazz, pop, or ballad singer but defined her art quite simply as "telling a story in song.""--Jacket.