Sallie Blair
Biographie Sallie Blair
Sallie Blair
Best known for her live performances, her bombshell image—packaging herself "in skin-clinging gowns and torrid toreador pants [her trademark look] which showcase them to their best advantage"—dubbed the "brown Marilyn Monroe" by Miles Davis when Blair rocked the blonde hairdo—undergoing an array of hair colors through her career as mentioned in THE AFRO-AMERICAN January 5, 1957 issue, GREEN HAIR IS BECOMING, assorting across blonde, silver, red, green, black, and even white—Sallie Blair had a professional career performing as a band act with Johnny Otis and Duke Ellington (after graduating from high school) before joining Cab Calloway's COTTON CLUB REVUE, where she was the star female role, and eventually emerging as a solo artist when the ensemble gigs grew tiresome for the artist.
"SALLIE, SEASON'S HIT SINGER — Twenty-three-year-old Sallie Blair from Baltimore has a full-bodied voice, a habit of kicking off her shoes in the middle of a number and the reputation of being the best girl singer to turn up on the nightclub circuit in half a dozen years." (1957, LIFE Magazine)
