VALERIE WELLINGTON

                                   

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Biography :

She was born Valerie Eileen Hall in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Wellington trained as an opera singer, graduating from the American Conservatory of Music,but in 1982 took up singing the blues in her local Chicago clubs. Her work extended to the theater, where she undertook roles portraying earlier blues singers such as Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Wellington's opera training enabled her to project her voice to theater audiences. She appeared at the 1984 San Francisco Blues Festival, on the bill alongside Marcia Ball and Katie Webster

Her recorded work blended the more traditional vaudeville approach with a contemporary Chicago blues format. Wellington appeared on a limited number of recordings, but her voice was used on several advertisements on both television and radio. Wellington's recording of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On" was used on the soundtrack to the 1989 film, Great Balls of Fire!, in which she briefly appeared depicting Big Maybelle.In the same year, Wellington toured Japan, with Carlos Johnson.

Wellington died of a cerebral aneurysm in Maywood, Illinois, in January 1993, at the age of 33. She was interred at the Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.

In 1995, Rooster Blues re-issued Million Dollar $ecret.


                                       
                                            


Desde su encuentro con Big Walter Horton la marcó hasta el punto de querer dedicarse a cantar Blues, de Chicago. Grabando su primer album con nada menos que ; Billy Branch, Johnny Littlejohn, Magic Slim y Sunnyland Slim , con la Discográfica Rooster Blues.- Million Dollar Secret,. que como veis fué reeditado en 1995,  ( fácil de encontrar en la red y poder oír su música ) * dos años después de su prematura desaparición a la edad de 33 años.Cuando sus cualidades y su personalidad ,le atesoraban un gran porvenir......


* www.myspace.com/valeriewellington




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