Wearing sequins, rhinestones, pearls — and sometimes nothing — Josephine Baker lit up the stage. She danced her way out of abject poverty in St. Louis into the grand orchestra halls and ...

Often called the Beyoncé of the 1920s, Josephine Baker lived a dozen lives in her time on earth. The African American singer made France her home, rising to stardom for her legendary dance moves ...

The life of Josephine Baker is a dazzling rags to riches story of a musical icon, stage sensation and heroine of the French Resistance who took 20th Century Europe by storm – think Janelle Monae ...

France is honouring the US-born 20th Century singer and activist Josephine Baker with a place in the Pantheon on Tuesday. She’s the first black woman to be remembered in the resting place of ...

Born in St. Louis in 1906, Josephine Baker achieved only moderate success in the United States but became an international superstar after moving to France in the early 1920s. She starred ...