Louis Hooper

Canadian jazz pianist (born May 18, 1894 in North Buxton, near Windsor, Ontario, Canada – died September 17, 1977 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada). Between 1921-1927, Hooper lived in the Harlem, New York City. During that time, he played in trios under various names with Elmer Snowden and Bob Fuller. He also accompanied numerous blues singers, including Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, Martha Copeland, Rosa Henderson, Lizzie Miles, Monette Moore and others. In 1926, he toured with Paul Robeson, later with Lew Leslie's revue Blackbirds Of 1928 Hooper returned to Canada in 1932, living first in Toronto, then, from 1933, in Montreal, where he played with Myron Sutton's Canadian Ambassadors and founded his own choir, the Hooper Southern Singers, that performed in concerts and on the radio.