Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald on 6 June 1906 in St ... As a performer Baker routinely traveled with sheet music. These circumstances allowed her to transport dozens of hidden messages ...

A spirit of the Enlightenment ridiculing colonialist prejudices to music by Sidney Bechet.” Josephine Baker certainly shook things up. This memoir demonstrates — vividly — the pleasure she ...

Josephine Baker opens at the Folies Bergere cabaret music hall in Paris - dressed in nothing but bananas. Read by Josette Simon. Show more Josephine Baker opens at the Folies Bergère dressed in ...

are artists with traveling shows, including Tymisha Harris, whose "A Cabaret of Legends" focuses on the life of superstar performer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker. Here's the 2025 ...