Before she became an exciting lady with Southern flair, the Legendary Sweet Georgia Brown was a precocious three-year-old growing up in South Carolina. Her mother, a devout churchgoer and talented singer, saw something amazing in her child’s singing and dancing. The young Georgia packed it up for New York City to begin a musical career.

Enrolled at the prestigious Victoria School of Music in Harlem, Georgia studied tap dance and vocals. She caught on quick, and by age nine Sweet Georgia Brown found herself onstage at Carnegie Hall, tap dancing in a musical production of Alice in Wonderland. During high school, she was joined by her family in the Big Apple, who witnessed her winning the All Star Chorus Competition.

Sweet Georgia Brown expanded her repertoire under the tutelage of renowned vocal instructor Margaret Haynes, who helped her become much more than a dynamic jazz and pop vocalist. Her genre-defying talent became apparent as Sweet Georgia Brown won the legendary Amateur Night at the Apollo talent show.

That recognition led her to be cast as a vocalist in the Broadway hits Eubie and Bubbling Brown Sugar. That was just the start of what would become a successful career, as Sweet Georgia Brown went on to tour Europe, performing the role of Bessie Smith in the production An Evening at the Cotton Club.

Today, Sweet Georgia Brown enjoys a reputation she’s rightfully earned as one sassy lady. Fans are riveted by her high-energy jazz, blues and gospel performances, and Sweet Georgia Brown never misses a chance to get up close and personal with her audiences.

Throughout her career, she’d performed with big names like Dizzy Gillespie, George Benson, Fathead Newman, KoKo Taylor and Stanley Turrentine, and her hard work has earned her recognition as one of the last real Harlem diva blues queens.