Hazel Scott

American jazz (and classical) pianist and singer.
Born : June 11, 1920 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Died : October 02, 1981 in New York City, New York.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Scott performed jazz, blues, ballads, Broadway and boogie-woogie songs, and classical music in various nightclubs. She was an outspoken critic of racial discrimination and segregation and used her influence to improve the representation of Black Americans in film. In 1950, Hazel became the first black American to host her own TV show, The Hazel Scott Show.

Wife of artist from 1945 to 1960. In 1961, she married Ezio Bedin, a Swiss-born comedian.