Hazel Scott (June 11, 1920 –
October 2, 1981) was a Trinidadian-born jazz and classical pianist, singer, and
actor. She was prominent as a jazz singer throughout the 1930s and 1940s. In
1950, she became the first black American to host her own TV show, The Hazel
Scott Show. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Scott performed jazz, blues,
ballads, Broadway and boogie-woogie songs, and classical music in various
nightclubs.
In 1945, Scott married Baptist
minister and US Congressman Adam Clayton Powell.