Five Femmes Fatales
With Peggy Reynolds.
5: Josephine Baker was born in a slum in downtown St Louis, but once she had crossed the Atlantic and taken the Champs-Elysees theatre by storm in October 1925, she was set to become the most celebrated black cabaret artist Europe had ever seen. Her skimpy costumes, long limbs, uninhibited dancing and appalling
French accent mean that Josephine Baker lives on, in legend and on record. She even sang in operetta.
Poulenc Rapsodie Negre Francois le Roux (baritone), Pascal Roge (piano), Soloists of the French National
Opera, conductor Charles Dutoit Offenbach La Creole (excerpts) Huguette Boulangeau (soprano),
Lyric Chorus and Orchestra of Radio France, conductor Marcel Cariven Plus cabaret numbers including La Petite Tonkinoise, Vous Faits Partie de Moi, J'ai Deux Amours and Aux lies Hawai.