SING!

(Source: classicalallure)

brandos:

Miss Joyce Bryant, 1953

Her act was outrageously sexy; she wore provocative, tight, backless, cleavage-revealing mermaid dresses that left little to imagine and they were so tight, she had to be carried off-stage. Supposedly, Bryant twisted so much she lost four pounds a performance.

Bryant’s hair was naturally black, but not wanting to be upstaged by Josephine Baker at a club, she doused it with silver radiator paint, slithered into a tight silver dress: the Bronze Blond Bombshell and even Baker was impressed!

The gimmick and Bryant’s elastic voice elevated the singer to heavyweight status. She was called one of the most beautiful black women in the world and regularly appeared in Afrocentric magazines like Jet. A Life magazine layout in 1953 depicted the sexy singer in provocative poses.

hammerandcode:

Ali, Louisville, 1976.

(Source: TIME)

modelhaus:

Carmen Dell’Orefice with Robin Tattersall, Paris, August 1957.  

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holdthisphoto:

Ballet dancers, 1937

Rest in Peace to a beautiful soul singer

(Source: ihumble, via pitchfork)

What if all of these were nothing but vinyls instead of books…..

(Source: yvcht, via bookshelfporn)

“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.” - Marilyn Monroe

(Source: bellecs)

marilynfacts:

Rare photograph by Don Ornitz