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Biography
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Blanche Calloway
Real name: Blanche Dorothea Jones Calloway
Effective period / Period of releases: 1925 - 1990
Jazz singer, bandleader, composer, and disc-jockey. Appeared as a disc-jockey on WMBM-AM, in Baltimore, during the 1930s.She was one of six children (three boys, three girls), one of her younger brothers being Cab Calloway.
Born: 9 February 1902, in Rochester, New York, U.S.A.
Died: 16 December 1978, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. (breast cancer, aged 76).