Oral history interview with Leslie Uggams, 2009

Biographical Note

Actress and singer

Scope and Contents

Background and childhood: born 1943 New York City, youth in Washington Heights neighborhood; education: Juilliard School 1961-1963; career: start in show business in 1950 on television series Beulah, opening act at Apollo from age nine to sixteen, roles in Sing Along with Mitch and Roots, recording of Ervin Drake songs; speech and language in music, anecdotes of Dinah Washington

Subjects

• Actresses--United States--Interviews.
• African American actresses--Interviews.
• African American women singers--Interviews.
• Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street)
• Rowland, Steve, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Uggams, Leslie--Interviews.
• Women singers--United States--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University of the City of New York and the Apollo Theater Foundation, 2009