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LaVern Baker was born in Chicago in 1929. Sources vary as to what her name was at birth: Chip Deffaa reports that Delores Williams, frequently given in other secondary sources as her birth name, was actually a name from an early marriage. Other sources indicate that she was born Delores Baker.

She grew up loving music. Baker’s aunt was blues singer Merline Johnson, who was a great influence on Baker as a young girl. “I just wanted to be like her,” Baker told Chip Deffaa, “I would sit there in the studio and watch her record.” As a child, Baker performed gospel music, but she was compelled by a strong desire to perform secular music in the Chicago club scene. In 1946, finally old enough to work in liquor-serving establishments, seventeen-year-old Baker was given her first opportunity at Club DeLisa. From there, she appeared at a variety of venues and also released singles for the Okeh, National, and King labels under different names, primarily “Bea Baker” and “Little Miss Sharecropper.” (The latter name was part of a whole act in which Baker dressed in rags

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Lavern Baker

By Marv Goldberg

© 2001, 2009, 2020 by Marv Goldberg

Lavern Baker was one of the Big Stars of 1950s R&B and R&R. With hits like "Tweedle Dee" and "Jim Dandy", she had a powerful voice that has always been one of my favorites.

A NOTE ON HER NAME: While her name is often seen as "Laverne", there shouldn't be an "e" at the end. However, is it "Lavern", "LaVern", or "La Vern"? I really don't know; I've only seen one example of her signature and that spelled it "La Vern", but her Social Security record has "Lavern".

Lavern Baker was born in Chicago, on November 11, 1929 (Armistice Day, for those of you old enough to remember it). She was (per her Social Security record) the daughter of Peter Baker and Anna P. Evans. She first shows up as "Deloris Baker" (although, not having access to her birth certificate, I really don't know what's on it). Read on.

It all sounds straightforward enough. So who were her parents?

Well, her mother is no problem. In 1920, 5-year-old Annie Pearl Evans (from Auburn, Alabama, not far
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LaVern Baker
Delores LaVern Baker (Chicago, 11 de noviembre de 1929 - Queens, 10 de marzo de 1997) fue una cantanteestadounidense de rhythm and blues. Durante las décadas de los 50 y 60 grabó numerosos sencillos de éxito. En 1991 fue incluida en el Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll.
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Delores Baker nació en Chicago en 1929, en el seno de una familia que había llegado a la ciudad proveniente de los campos de algodón de Misisipi. Su primer aprendizaje musical llegó de la mano de su tía, la cantante de jazz Merline Johnson. Baker fue también sobrina de la legendaria cantante de blues Memphis Minnie. Como tantos otros cantantes afroamericanos de la época, la joven Delores comenzó a cantar en el coro de la iglesia Baptista.^[1]
Tan pronto como alcanzó la edad legal para hacerlo, comenzó a cantar en los clubes de Chicago bajo el nombre artístico de Little Miss Sharecropper,^[2] con el que firmó su primera grabación en 1949. En 1951 firma con Okeh Records y cambia su nombre a Bea Baker, que poco más tarde transforma, ya de manera definitiva, e