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An American-born French dancer and singer whose fame reflected the Parisian passion for African American music and some of her outfits, especially her banana skirt, became legendary, was born on June 3, 1906, in St. Louis, Missouri, she took, and kept, the name Baker from her second husband, During the early 1920s Baker also made regular appearances at the Cotton Club, the Plantation Club, and other New York nightclubs, performing the Charleston, the black bottom, and other dances created by blacks. In 1925 she went to Paris and won enormous fame starring in an American production, La revue Negre. She built on this reputation with performances of suggestive dances in scanty costumes at the Folies Bergere. In one jungle dance she wore only a skirt of bananas. She starred in several motion pictures, including La Sirene des tropiques (1927; The Siren of the Tropics), and had a recording career. Her signature song, “J'ai deux amours” (I Have Two Loves), referred to her love for two countries, the United States and France. She was rewarded with the French Legion d'honneur (Legion of Honor) and the Medaille de la Resistance. In the 1960s Baker participated in the civil rights movement in the United States. She announced her retirement in 1956 and spent much of her time afterward with an orphanage she had established in the Dordogne region of France, although often obliged to perform again for financial reasons.
She died on April 12, 1975, and after a state funeral in Paris was buried in Monaco.
Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal