_Known as "Sweet Mama Stringbean", "Ma Rainey’s Shadow", as well as "The Darkest Dame with the Lightest Skin You Ever Saw", she appeared in vaudeville and on Broadway, as well as touring nationally and worldwide as part of jazz revues such as Jazz on Parade in Europe; in addition, she had a solo career as a recording artist with such big bands as those of Noble Sissle, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, and Harry James._
Ethel Waters is best known for singing the songs:
-"Stormy Weather"
-"Am I Blue?"
-"Dinah"
-"My Handy Man"