Hadda Brooks was known as the 'Queen of the Boogie' and the 'Empress of the Torch Blues.' Brooks was born 'Hadda Riah Hopgood' in 1916 to affluent parents in Los Angeles. Her mother was a doctor which was quite rare for black women during the early 1900s and her father was one of the first […]
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