Christopher Lynn Calloway (1945 - 2008)

Born 21 Sep 1945 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Hugh Ramopolo Masekela — married 31 May 1968 (to 1969) in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States

Died 7 Aug 2008 at age 62 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

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Biography

Chris Calloway is Notable.

Chris Calloway was an American jazz singer.^[1]

Chris Calloway, daughter of Cab Calloway was born in Los Angeles on Sept. 21, 1945.^[2]

Her birth record says her mother's name was MacNeal. Her obituary says her mother's name was Nuffie Calloway. But she was born in 1945 and Cab Calloway and Nuffie Macneal didn't get married until 1949.

She began her career on television, performing with her father 30 years ago on the Ed Sullivan Show. In addition to touring widely, she went on to sing in a Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! that starred Cab Calloway and Pearl Bailey. She later portrayed jazz legend Billie Holiday in the Lanie Robertson play Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. Lady Day was produced in Santa Fe by the New Mexico Repertory Theater in 1993 and Santa Fe Stages in 1995.

A Santa Fe resident since 1991, the vivacious vocalist sang with her father's Hi-De-Ho Orchestra for two decades until his death in 1995. She then became a bandleader in her own right, putting together a new version of the band. In 2001, she took the group on a 55-city tour.

In 2001, Santa Fe Stages produced Calloway's one-woman show, Clouds of Joy: The Spiritual Journey of Blanche Calloway, about her Aunt Blanche, who was a pioneering bandleader in the 1930s. ^[3]

She was briefly married to South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela from May 1968 to February 1969.^{[4] [5]}

She died in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2008.^[6][7]

Sources

1. ↑ German Wikipedia page
2. ↑ "California Birth Index, 1905-1995," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VLNK-142 : 27 November 2014), Christopher Lynn Calloway, 21 Sep 1945; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento.
3. ↑ Obituary
4. ↑ "California Marriage Index, 1960-1985," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V6GN-HKJ : 27 November 2014), Hugh R Masekela and Christop L Calloway, 31 May 1968; from "California, Marriage Index, 1960-1985."
5. ↑ "California Divorce Index, 1966-1984," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPY9-Z2F : 15 May 2014), Christop L Calloway and Hugh R Masekela, Feb 1969; from "California Divorce Index, 1966-1984."
6. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V313-N47 : 12 January 2021), Christopher Lynn Calloway, 07 Aug 2008; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
7. ↑ Biography