Elaine Delmar

Elaine Delmar
Delmar in 1962
Born (1939-09-01) 1 September 1939 (age 85)
Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England

Elaine Delmar (born 1 September 1939) is a British singer and actress, with a long career in stage acting, music recording and concert performances. Born in Harpenden, she is the daughter of Jamaican jazz trumpeter Leslie "Jiver" Hutchinson. After learning the piano as a child, Delmar became a singer and toured with her father's band from the age of sixteen.

In 1952, she appeared in Finian's Rainbow in Liverpool. She sang with Coleridge Goode's group The Dominoes for a month in Germany in the mid-1950s,[1] before going solo. She appeared in the Ken Russell film Mahler (1974).

  1. ^ Coleridge Goode and Roger Cotterrell, Bass Lines: A Life in Jazz. London: Northway Publications (2002) p.106.