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Sister-in-law of Nat Adderley.

Graduated from Julliard where she studied opera and was classmates with Leontyne Price.

Has one son, Michael Fox.

Managed by Harlem Globetrotters owner Abe Saperstein.

Her first professional role was in 1952 as member of the production of Virgil Thomson's opera Four Saints in Three Acts which performed at a festival in Paris.

Was a singer in the all-black revue Larry Steele's Smart Affairs at Atlantic City's Club Harlem.

Father was a saxophonist, mother a dancer on the Chitlin Circuit.

In 1956 she made her Broadway debut opposite of Sammy Davis Jr. as Ethel Pearson in Mr. Wonderful.