The author’s story is written almost like scat: quick lines, be-bopping here and shooby-loobing there, rising and falling as though Josephine Baker herself was singing the story. It’s ...

Josephine Baker moved to France at 19. She emigrated with the hope of leaving the racism that hindered her American aspirations behind. She quickly became famous for her singing and dancing ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "J’AI DEUX AMOURS") JOSEPHINE BAKER: (Singing in French). ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: In "J’ai Deux Amours," Josephine Baker's most iconic song, she sings of having two ...

Born Freda Josephine McDonald in 1906, Baker married William Howard Baker ... quietly, as if I were singing to each individual. And the song choked me.” Later, she served as a reporter, calling ...

On Aug. 28, 1963, Josephine Baker stepped to the microphone at the ... she wowed audiences on five continents – singing, dancing, charming, seducing – and eventually became a citizen of ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DIS-MOI JOSEPHINE") JOSEPHINE BAKER: (Singing in French). BRYANT: You know, I'm thinking this was happening during the Jazz Age. And, of course, France was instrumental in ...

Black, American-born, a woman, and arguably best known for her exotic dancing: Josephine Baker hardly ... and a choir of children singing one of Baker’s own songs, according to the Elysee.

Legendary entertainer Josephine Baker—who was born 110 years ago ... whether they involved “singing an Ave Maria while clad only in a girdle of bananas,” as LIFE Magazine once put it ...

Josephine adopted 12 children ... (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ME REVOLIA PARIS") BAKER: (Singing in French). BEARDSLEY: Baker collapsed after her last concert in Paris, at the age of 68, and died ...