Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop, (1894 – 1984). American dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome. She has been called "...one of the most legendary and enduring figures of twentieth-century American cultural history".
She was the youngest of four children by an Irish father and a black mother.
She was the youngest of four children by an Irish father and a black mother.
- "It was there that saloon life caught her fancy, and where she acquired her nickname, "Bricktop," for the flaming red hair and freckles inherited from her father." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_%22Bricktop%22_Smith
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