Vanita smythe biography of michael jackson
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Vanita Smythe
By Marv Goldberg
© 2016 by Marv Goldberg
Vanita Smythe is another of those mysterious singers who appears briefly and then vanishes.
She was active from around 1945 to 1950, and, in that time, made eight Soundies, one movie, and two records.
Vanita smythe biography of michael jackson
It's understandable if you've never heard of her. However, she had a good voice and I'm sorry she didn't do more.
"Vanita Smythe" was an affectation. She was born Vannie Smith, on January 13, 1925, in Detroit, Michigan.
(That's her name in both the 1930 and 1940 censuses.) The third of seven children, her parents were Grady and Gertrude McCray Smith. Vannie was named after her maternal grandmother, Lou Vannie Donaldson.
Little is known of her early career; there are only two documented appearance in Detroit.
(But both "Vannie" and "Vanita" appear many times in Detroit papers in the 1930s and early 40s: as names of race horses!) In July 1945, Vannie Smith was a dancer at Detroit's Cl