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Bookmark or Share- Jazz musician Valaida Snow | Holocaust EncyclopediaIn the 1930s, famous Tennessee jazz musician Valaida Snow was known as “Little Louis” because her talent with a trumpet rivaled the legendary Louis Armstrong. She performed around the world, but it was a tour of Europe that would haunt her for the rest of her life.
- Overlooked No More: Valaida Snow, Charismatic ‘Queen of the Trumpet’Snow was in Denmark during an extended engagement when Nazi Germany stormed across Europe in the early years of World War II. But she refused to decamp for the United States and ended...
- Fiery Facts About Valaida Snow, The Unsung Jazz HeroineValaida Snow went from a globe-trotting superstar to a defeated captive in just eighteen months. We have very little information about this devastating time in Snow's life, but we do know that these months were the darkest time of Snow's entire life.
- Valaida Snow - NPRIt's a biography of jazz singer and musician Valaida Snow, aka "Little Louis." Valaida Snow artist page: interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music.
- Valaida Snow - WikipediaValaida Snow (June 2, 1904 [1] – May 30, 1956) [2] was an American jazz musician and entertainer who performed internationally. She was also known as "Little Louis" and "Queen of the Trumpet," a nickname given to her by W. C. Handy. [3]
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