Pearl Hobson

At one time working as a housemaid in Virginia she became an international ballerina and singer. She arrived in Europe February 1902, and settled in Imperial Russia in 1904. At one point she was the mistress of Count Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Sheremetev and established a successful career for over 15 years before her tragic death in Finland from Typhus on June 4, 1919. She was just 39,

A more thorough bio can be found on Dulcé Bayrón's phenomenal site Black Jazz Artists Across the World: blackjazzartists.blogspot.com/2019/07/pearl-hobson-1879-1...