- She was a dancer, comedian and big-band singer who helped popularize the acrobatic Lindy Hop in the 1930s and 1940s.
- Her parents were immigrants from Barbados.
- Friends with Redd Foxx.
- She appeared in several documentaries on swing dance and jazz, and taught at Stanford University and the University of Hawaii. She received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2003.
- At age 15, she joined Whitey's Lindy Hoppers as the dance troupe's youngest member. They toured Europe, the United States and South America.
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