Women in Music Posters “H...-”
for social studies and music education classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational decor.

Adelaide Hall, Giclee Print

Adelaide Hall
b. 10-20-1901; Brooklyn
d. 11-7-1993; London

Adelaide Hall, who was taught to sing by her father, worked in black musical shows from the chorus of the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921) to Blackbirds of 1928, with the song “I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby”.

Hall lived in Europe where opportunities for black performers were more available, after the Blackbirds tour of Europe, settling in England. She had a radio show and appeared on stage and in films and nightclubs. She made her last recording at age 90 in 1991.

• Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall

Mata Hari, Dutch-Born Exotic Dancer and Spy, Giclee Print

Mata Hari
née Margaretha Geertruida Zelle
b. 8-7-1876; The Netherlands
d. 10-15-1917; France by firing squad

Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida “Grietje” Zelle, a Dutch born exotic dancer and courtesan convicted as a German WWI spy by the French.

The Germans thought her ineffectual and it seems now that the French demonized her to distract the public from the battlefield losses. The name “Mata Hari” became synomous with ‘femme fatale’, French for “deadly women”, a woman whose irresistible charms “lead men astray.” Other examples of femme fatales: Eve, Delilah, Salome, Cleopatra.

• Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari

Jane Hatto
née Marguerite Jeanne Frere
1879-1958; France

Soprano Jane Hatto made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1899 as Brunehild in Reyer's Sigurd.

• Siegfried posters

June Havoc, B&W Photo

June Havoc
née Ellen Evangeline Hovick
b. 11-8-1913; Vancouver, BC, Canada

Dancer, singer, actress, writer and theatre director June Havoc was the younger sister of the burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee. She appeared in many musicals, the most notable 42nd St.

• Early Havoc by June Havoc

Paloma Herrera Art Print

Paloma Herrera
b. 12-21-1975; Buenos Aires, Argentina

Paloma Herrera is a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.

Singer Hildegarde, 27, Photographic Print

Hildegarde
née Hildegarde Loretta Sell
b. 2-1-1906; Adell, WI
d. 7-29-2005; New York

The cabaret singer known as Hildegarde is best remembered for her signature song “Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup .”

Harriet Hoctor Photographic Print

Harriet Hoctor
b. 9-25-1905; Hoosick Falls, NY
d. 6-9-1977; Virginia

Harriet Hoctor was ballerina and performed as a dancer in a number 1930 era Hollywood movies.

• Shall We Dance (1937), VHS (opening ballet sequence)

Billie Holiday
née Eleanora Fagan
b. 4-7-1915; Philadelphia, PA
d. 7-17-1959

Billie Holiday, nicknamed “Lady Day”, was a jazz singer and songwriter, manipulating phrasing and tempo with her voice. Holiday took her stage name from actress Billie Dove.

A statue of jazz singer Billie Holiday is located at the corner of Lafayette & Pennsylvania Ave, Baltimore, MD.

Lena Horne
b. 6-30-1917; Brooklyn
d. 5-9-2010; NYC

Lena Horne, a singer and actress, has recorded and performed alone and with notables such as Duke Ellington. Horne's career spanned from 1933 as a member of the Cotton Club chorus line, through film, TV, nightclubs, concerts and recording to 2000. Lena Horne was also a civil rights activist working with Eleanor Roosevelt and Medgar Evers.

• An Evening with Lena Horne, DVD

Marilyn Horne
b. 1-16-1934; Bradford, PA

Mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne has been called “probably the greatest singer in the world” (Opera News, 1981).

Whitney Houston
b. 8-9-1963; Newark, NJ

Whitney Houston is noted as one of the best selling singers in the world with over 200 million albums and singles.

Kathleen Howard
b. 7-27-1885; Canada (raised in Buffalo, NY)
d. 4-15-1956; Hollywood

Kathleen Howard was a mezzo-soprano opera singer, magazine editor, and movie character actress during the mid-1930s through the 1940s.

Memorable roles for Kathleen Howard include Zita in Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi at the Metropolitan Opera (1918) and as the nagging, shrewish wife of W.C. Fields in It's a Gift (1934).

• Confessions of an Opera Singer

Doris Humphrey: An Artist First (no commercially available image)

Doris Humphrey
b. 10-17-1895; Oak Park, IL
d. 12-29-1958; Virginia

Doris Humphrey, a second generation modern dance pioneer, opened her own dance studio at age 19. Her dances are noted for “the intricacies of large groups, and her emphasis on sculptural shapes.”

Alberta Hunter
b. 4-1-1895; Memphis, TN
d. 10-17-1984

Blues singer, songwriter, and nurse, Alberta Hunter started her musical career in the early 1920s, and became a successful jazz and blues recording artist. Hunter retired from performing in the 1950s and became a nurse; she resumed her singing career in her eighties.