Elisabeth Welch

The BBC reports that the singer Elisabeth Welch is to be commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque in south-west London.

Welch is the second black woman to be honoured with a blue plaque in London (who was the first?)

The plaque will be unveiled in Ovington Court, Kensington, which was her home during the 1930s when she rose to fame on the cabaret circuit.

The performer died aged 99 in 2003 and has been described as “Britain’s first black star”.

Welch was born in New York in 1904, but lived in London for 70 years.

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Rest In Peace Elisabeth Welch.