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Alberta Adams (July 26, 1917 – December 25, 2014) was an American Detroit blues, jump blues, and Chicago blues singer. Raised in Detroit, she began performing as a tap dancer and nightclub singer in the 1930s. In 1952, she landed a recording contract with Chess Records and recorded alongside Red Saunders for the record label. Adams toured alongside Duke Ellington, Eddie Vinson, Louis Jordan, Lionel Hampton, and T-Bone Walker among others. Her solo career saw her secure a recording contract with the now defunct Cannonball Records, and she recorded two albums for them: 1999's ''Born With the Blues'' and 2000s ''Say Baby Say''. Her 2004 album, ''I'm on the Move'', was released on Eastlawn Records label. In 2006 she released the EP ''Detroit's Queen of the Blues'', which was named Outstanding Blues/R&B Recording at the 2006 Detroit Music Awards.〔 At age 91 she recorded ''Detroit Is My Home'', with Ann Rabson and Thornetta Davis as guest artists.〔〔 ==Early life== Alberta Adams was born as Roberta Louise Osborn on July 26, 1917〔 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She was raised in Detroit, Michigan by family members, initially an aunt.〔 From a young age she wanted to be an entertainer.〔 After escaping a difficult home life, at age fourteen she began living on her own, getting a small apartment near Woodward, where she stayed for five or six years.〔 She first began performing as a tap dancer on Detroit's Hastings Street club scene, and began singing shortly after.〔 In the 1940s, she appeared at the B&C club as a tap dancer, amidst other artists such as John Lee Hooker. When headliner Kitty Stevenson was too ill to perform one night, Adams sang an impromptu two-song performance that led to the club hiring her as a vocalist for a five-year stint.〔 Among her contemporaries and musical teachers on Hastings Street were John Lee Hooker, Big Maceo, Eddie Burns, and Eddie Kirkland.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alberta Adams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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