Alberta Hunter

Her father left when Alberta Hunter was a child and to support the family Hunter’s mother worked as a servant to a whorehouse in Memphis. The comeback lasted six years and Hunter toured in Europe and South America made more television appearances and enjoyed her renewed recording career as well as the fact that record catalogs now once again contained her old recordings going back to her 1921 debut on the Black Swan label. Her Columbia albums The Glory of Alberta Hunter Amtrak Blues (where Alberta Hunter sang the jazz classic "The Darktown Strutters' Ball") and Look For the Silver Lining did not do as well as expected but sales were nevertheless healthy.

Alberta Hunter (April 1 1895 – October 17 1984) was an American blues singer songwriter and nurse. In the 1950s Alberta Hunter retired from performing and entered the medical field only to successfully resume her singing career in her 80s.