Blanche Calloway was an accomplished jazz singer, composer, and bandleader known for her flamboyant performing style. She was the first woman to lead an all-male orchestra, and was a major influence on the career and style of her younger brother, Cab. In later years, she was a DJ and program director at WMBM in Miami Beach; while in Florida, she became the first Black precinct voting clerk, and the first Black woman to vote in Florida in 1958.
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