Blanche Calloway

Jazz singer, bandleader, composer, and disc-jockey. Appeared as a disc-jockey on WMBM-AM, in Baltimore, during the 1930s. She was one of six children (three boys, three girls), one of her younger brothers being Cab Calloway. Born: 9 February 1902, in Rochester, New York, U.S.A. Died: 16 December 1978, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. (breast cancer, aged 76).