Eartha Kitt Dies at the Age of 81
Karen posted on December 26th, 2008
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Eartha Kitt, the American singer, dancer, actress and self-professed “sex-kitten” who has died aged 81, was one of the most remarkable and distinctive entertainers in the history of cabaret and the light musical stage.
Known as “That Bad Eartha” from the suggestive manner in which her rasping, reedy voice threaded its way through such songs as I Want To Be Evil, Just An Old-Fashioned Girl, Santa Baby and C’est si bon, she brought an exotic sensuality and feline verve to all her performances.
Although she played Helen of Troy for Orson Welles (who declared her “the most exciting woman in the world”) and in stage plays, films and television programmes, it was as a chanteuse in revue or musical comedy or on records that the peculiar and brilliantly controlled vibrato of her voice, now purring, now growling, always sensually arousing, won greatest admiration.
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