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Birth Name:

Aletra Hampton

Female

Birth Date:

Fri, Oct 08, 1915

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Middletown, Ohio, United States

Age:

109

Zodiac Sign:

Libra

Astrology Data:

Sun

14°

Lib

20'

About Aletra Hampton

Aletra Hampton (October 8, 1915 – November 12, 2007) was an American jazz pianist and singer, best known for her performances during the 1940s and 1950s as a member of the Hampton family band and The Hampton Sisters, a quartet she formed during World War II with her siblings, Carmalita, Virtue and Dawn. The Middletown, Ohio, native began performing at a young age and moved with her family to Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1938. Hampton and her eight siblings performed in the 1940s and 1950s in Duke Hampton's band, their oldest brother's jazz orchestra. The group became well known as the house band at nightclubs in Indianapolis and Cincinnati, Ohio, and toured the United States playing at venues that included New York City's Carnegie Hall and Harlem's Apollo Theater and the Savoy Ballroom. The family's band dissolved in the 1950s, but Hampton and two of her sisters, Virtue and Carmalita, continued to perform as the Hampton Sisters for several more years. The trio reunited in Indianapolis in 1981 after almost a twenty-year hiatus. Hampton and her sister, Virtue, continued to perform as a duo, mostly in Indianapolis, until 2006.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• "Hampton Sisters," Emmett I. Brown Jr. Photograph Collection at the Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis

• "Hampton Sisters Oral History, 1992," in the collections of the Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis

• The Unforgettable Hampton Family, PBS documentary, BetterThanFiction Productions

• "Watermelon Man" – Aletra and Virtue Hampton, YouTube

Birth Chart and Planetary Positions of Aletra Hampton

Astrological portrait of Aletra Hampton

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Aletra Hampton: Sun 14 Libra, Moon 11 Libra, Mercury 6 Scorpio, Venus 21 Libra, Mars 0 Leo, Jupiter 20 Pisces, Saturn 16 Cancer, Uranus 11 Aquarius, Neptune 2 Leo, Pluto 3 Cancer, Sun Trine Uranus, Sun Conjunct Venus, Mercury Square Neptune, Sun Square Saturn, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Jupiter, Mercury Trine Pluto, Venus Quincunx Jupiter, Mars Conjunct Neptune, Jupiter Trine Saturn, Neptune Semi Sextile Pluto

Categories related to Aletra Hampton: 2007 deaths, 20th-century American pianists, Musicians from Indianapolis, American jazz pianists, October 8 births, American jazz singers, Ohio, Jazz musicians from Ohio, African-American pianists, American women pianists, People from Middletown, African-American jazz musicians, 21st-century American women, 1915 births, 20th-century African-American women singers