# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adelaide-hall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:51:41.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adelaide-hall"
name: "Adelaide Hall"
slug: "adelaide-hall"
description: "Adelaide Louise Hall was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death. Early in her career, she was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance; she became based in the UK after 1938. Hall entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 2003 as the world's most enduring recording artist, having released material over eight consecutive decades. She performed with major artists such as Art Tatum, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Bill \"Bojangles\" Robinson, Cab Calloway, Fela Sowande, Rudy Vallee, and Jools Holland, and recorded as a jazz singer with Duke Ellington and with Fats Waller."
tagline: "American-born jazz singer and actor (1901–1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vu_(magazine)_N%C2%B077.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1901-10-20"
deathDate: "1993-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.64853333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0355263/"
    handle:    "nm0355263"
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    title: "Adelaide Hall"
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    title: "Adelaide Hall"
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    title: "Adelaide Hall"
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    title: "Adelaide Hall"
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    title: "Adelaide Hall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Adelaide Hall"
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    title: "Adelaide Hall"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump