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Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a French dancer, jazz and pop music singer, and actress, who came to be known in various circles as the "Black Pearl", "Bronze Venus" "Jazz Queen", and even the "Creole Goddess". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she renounced her U.S. citizenship to become a citizen of France in 1937. She was fluent in both English and French. She was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, Zouzou (1934), and to become a world-famous entertainer. Baker refused to…

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‘She is like Salome.She has seven veils. If you lift one, there is a second,&what you discover is even more mysterious,& you go to the third,still don’t know where you are.Only at the end, if you keep looking faithfully, will you find the true Josephine.” —George Balanchine

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