Dalyce Kelley holds up a picture of her grandmother, 95-year-old Dalyce Curry, on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, days after Curry died in the California wildfires ... and sang and danced backing up Pearl ...

Dalyce Kelley pauses Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, while remembering her 95-year-old grandmother, Dalyce Curry, who died days earlier in the California ... danced backing up Pearl Bailey in venues ...

opening at the St. James Theatre on January 16, 1964. A few years later, Pearl Bailey played Dolly on that same stage and brought her own magical personality to the role. On March 16, 1969 ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — At age 95 ... including backing up singer Pearl Bailey, being an extra in a scene with Diana Ross in "Lady Sings the Blues" and being mentored by the first Black woman to ...

She settled in Los Angeles, where she never became a star but did rub shoulders with some of the elites of old Hollywood, including backing up singer Pearl Bailey, being an extra in a scene with ...