Ẹ wo àmì-ọ̀rọ̀ fún Josephine Baker

{{Infobox musical artist
| image        = Baker Banana.jpg
| caption      = Josephine Baker in her famous banana costume. 
| background   = solo_singer
| birth_name   = Freda Josephine McDonald
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1906|6|3|mf=yes}}
|birth_place   = [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], U.S.<ref name="bm">{{cite web|title=Josephine Baker (Freda McDonald) Native of St. Louis, Missouri|url=http://blackmissouri.com/digest/josephine-baker-freda-mcdonald-native-of-st-louis-missouri.html|accessdate=2009-03-06}}</ref><ref name="va">{{cite web|title=A – About Art Deco – Josephine Baker|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1157_art_deco/about|publisher=[[Victoria and Albert Museum]]|accessdate=2009-03-06}}</ref>
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1975|4|12|1906|6|3|mf=yes}}
|death_place   = [[Paris, France]]
| instrument   = [[Human voice|Vocals]]
| genre        = [[Cabaret]], [[Music hall]], [[French pop music|French pop]], [[French jazz]]
| occupation   = [[Dancer]], [[singing|singer]], [[actress]], [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)|Civil Rights Activist]], [[spy]]
| years_active = 1921–1975
| label        = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]], [[Mercury Records|Mercury]], [[RCA Records|RCA Victor]]
}}

'''Josephine Baker''' (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) je onijo, akorin ati osere omo [[United States|Amerika]] ara [[French people|Fransi]] to je mimo kaakiri bi "Black Pearl," "Bronze Venus" ati "Creole Goddess". Oruko abiso re ni '''Freda Josephine McDonald''' ni [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], Josephine di ara [[Fransi]] ni 1937. O gbo ede Geesi ati ede Fransi daada.

Baker ni omobinrin [[African-American|Afrika Amerika]] akoko to di osere pataki ninu filmu kan, ''[[Zouzou (film)|Zouzou]]'' (1934) tabi to gbajumo kari aye gegebi onifaaji. Baker ko lati sere fun agbo eleyameya ni Amerika, be sini o tun kopa ninu [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–68)|Iwode awon Eto Araalu]]. [[Coretta Scott King]] fun ni ipo olori iwode yi ni odun 1968, leyin ifikupa [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]]. Baker, however, turned down the offer. She was also known for assisting the [[French Resistance]] during [[World War II]],<ref name="QR"/> and received the [[Military of France|French military]] honor, the [[Croix de guerre 1939–1945|Croix de guerre]] and was made a [[Légion d'honneur|Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur]] by General [[Charles de Gaulle]].<ref name="Remembering Josephine Baker">{{cite news|last=Roberts|first=Kimberly|title=Remembering Josephine Baker|accessdate=16 October 2013|newspaper=Philadelphia Tribune|date=8 April 2011}}</ref>

==Ìgbésíayé==
Wọ́n bí Josephine Baker pẹ̀lú orúkọ àbísọ Freda Josephine McDonald ní [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], ní orílẹ̀-èdè Amẹ́ríkà.<ref name="bm"/><ref name="va"/> Ìyá rẹ̀ ni Carrie McDonald. Bàbá rẹ̀ ni [[Eddie Carson]] tó jẹ́ onílù. Carrie àti Eddie dá ẹgbẹ́ orin àti ijó sílẹ̀, had a song-and-dance act, playing wherever they could get work, and when Josephine was about a year old they began to carry her onstage occasionally during their finale. Josephine was always poorly dressed and hungry, and her playground became the yards of [[St. Louis Union Station|Union Station]]. From this she developed her street smarts.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wood|first=Ian|title=The Josephine Baker Story|year=2000|publisher=MPG Books|location=United Kingdom|isbn=1-86074-286-6|pages=241–318}}</ref> When Baker was eight she began working as a live-in domestic for white families in St. Louis.<ref>{{cite book|last=. Whitaker|first=Matthew C.|title=Icons of Black America: Breaking Barriers and Crossing Boundaries|year=2011|page=64}}</ref> She was sent to work for a woman who [[child abuse|abused]] her, burning Baker's hands when she put too much soap in the laundry.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Rise and Fall of Josephine Baker|journal=[[Dollars & Sense]]|year=1987|volume=13}}</ref>


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