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Aida Ward (February 11, 1900 – June 23, 1984[1]) was an American jazz singer. Born in Washington, D.C., Ward rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s in New York, on Broadway and at Harlem's Cotton Club.[2] She appeared alongside Adelaide Hall and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the hit Broadway musical revue Blackbirds of 1928.[3]

Throughout the 1930s, Ward appeared regularly at the Cotton Club, performing with Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway.[4] She was associated with the introduction of the songs "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"[5] and "I've Got the World on a String"[6] at the Cotton Club in 1931-2. She also starred at Harlem's Apollo Theater.

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  7. "Aida Ward, 84, Sang in Nightclubs, on Radio," p. 8, Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Tuesday, June 26, 1984