On September 21, 1945, Chris Calloway was born in Los Angeles. 30 years ago, she appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show alongside her father to launch her television career.

Calloway not only participated in that illustrious performance in which Pearl Bailey played the lead role, but she also played Brenda in the 1973 Broadway revival of The Pajama Game opposite understudy Barbara McNair, who played Babe.

She performed in Lady Day at the Emerson Bar & Grill and Clouds of Joy: The Spiritual Joy of Blanche Calloway, a one-person play about her aunt Blanche Calloway, a pioneering bandleader, in Santa Fe, where she resided. Calloway was a renowned jazz vocalist as well.

Her sisters Cecelia and Cabella, as well as her mother Nuffi, are left to care for her.

Chris Calloway’s cause of death: What happened to Chris Calloway?

Weideman, Paul Chris Calloway, a jazz vocalist and the 62-year-old reigning queen of the night in Santa Fe, is the daughter of renowned Cotton Club bandleader Cab Calloway died.

Since 1987, she has been battling breast cancer.

The vibrant vocalist, who has called Santa Fe home since 1991, spent 20 years performing with her father’s Hi-De-Ho Orchestra before he passed away in 1995. After that, she organized a new lineup of the band and became a bandleader in her own right. She led the group on a 55-city tour in 2001.