Czech Music Josephine Baker - one of the great performers of all time - a 1970 interview with Radio Prague's Olga Szantova
When Josephine Baker died in Paris in 1975, over twenty thousand people lined the city streets to watch her funeral procession. She is remembered as one of the great performers of all time, overcoming poverty and racial discrimination in the American south to become a legend in her lifetime. In the 1920s her shows in her adopted Paris combined song, dance and humour and took the city by storm, with an overt sensuality that for the time was almost revolutionary. During the Second World War she worked with the French Resistance, proving that her driving principles of freedom and tolerance were a great deal more than skin-deep.
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