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Birth name
  
Valerie Eileen Hall

Labels
  
Occupation(s)
  
Singer, actress

Name
  
Valerie Wellington


Instruments
  
Vocals

Role
  
Singer

Years active
  
Late 1970sā€“1992

Record label
  
Flying Fish Records

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Born
  
November 14, 1959Chicago, Illinois, United States (
1959-11-14
)

Died
  
January 2, 1993, Maywood, Illinois, United States

Genres
  
Chicago blues, Electric blues

Similar People
  
Carlos Johnson, Cash McCall, Billy Branch, Lefty Dizz, Son Seals

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Valerie Wellington (November 14, 1959 ā€“ January 2, 1993) was an African-American singer who, in her short career, switched from singing opera to singing Chicago blues and electric blues. On her 1984 album, Million Dollar $ecret, she worked with Sunnyland Slim, Billy Branch, and Magic Slim. She also worked with Lee "Shot" Williams.

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Biography

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She was born Valerie Eileen Hall in Chicago, Illinois. She was trained as an opera singer and graduated from the American Conservatory of Music, but in 1982 she took up singing the blues in Chicago clubs. She also worked in theater, playing roles portraying earlier blues singers, such as Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Her opera training enabled her to project her voice to theater audiences. She appeared at the 1984 San Francisco Blues Festival, on a bill with Marcia Ball and Katie Webster.

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Her recorded work blended a traditional vaudeville approach with a contemporary Chicago blues format. Wellington made few recordings, but her voice was used in advertisements on television and radio. Her recording of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On" was used on the soundtrack of the 1989 film Great Balls of Fire!, in which she briefly appeared, depicting Big Maybelle. In the same year, she toured Japan with Carlos Johnson.

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Wellington died of a cerebral aneurysm in Maywood, Illinois, in January 1993, at the age of 33. She was interred at the Restvale Cemetery, in Alsip, Illinois.

Million Dollar $ecret was reissued by Rooster Blues in 1995.

Filmography

Actress
1989
Great Balls of Fire! as
Big Maybelle
Soundtrack
1989
Great Balls of Fire! (performer: "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On")
Self
1984
Survivors: The Blues Today (Documentary) as
Self

References

Valerie Wellington Wikipedia


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