Valaida Snow

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Valaida Snow (born June 2, 1903, Chattanooga, Tennessee; died May 30, 1956, New York City) was an African american jazz musician.

She could play ten different instruments, and she could sing and dance. She was so famous for playing the trumpet that she was named "Little Luis" after Louis Armstrong, who used to call her the world's second best jazz trumpet player besides himself. She played concerts throughout the USA, Europe and China.

Her most successful time were the 1930s. Later she became addicted to morphine. While touring through Denmark as the leader of an all women band, she was arrested and sent to prison for possession of drugs. After her release, she claimed having been sent to a Concentration camp by the Nazis. In the 1950s she had a tough time living up to her former success.

Valaida Snow died of brain hemorrhage on May 30, 1956 in New York City.

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