Amru Sani
Amru Sani (16 August 1925 – 15 August 2000) was a singer and actress who experienced short-lived fame in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. Background A "tall, exotic creature with a powerful, bluesy voice","Amru Sani, Who Sings, Can Also Fix Airplane Engines", ''Council Bluffs Nonpareil'' (Council Bluffs, Iowa), 30 September 1956, p. 32. she identified herself during her American heyday as hailing from India, but earlier newspaper references identified her as Jamaican. A 1954 edition of the Kingston, Jamaica, ''The Gleaner'' called her a "Jamaican 'enchantress of song."Singing Star of Two Continents", ''The Gleaner'' (Kingston, Jamaica), 28 September 1954, p. 16. Sani once claimed to have been born in Panama, to have grown up in India, to have been educated in Europe, and to have served as an airplane mechanic in England during World War II because she was too young to become a female pilot. Whether some of this information is merely show-business hype is unknown. ...
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