Elaine Delmar
Elaine Delmar | |
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Delmar in 1962 | |
| Born | 1 September 1939 Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England |
Elaine Delmar (born Elaine Pamela Hutchinson; 1 September 1939) is a British singer and actress, whose career has encompassed stage acting, music recording and concert performances. Born in Harpenden, she is the daughter of Jamaican jazz trumpeter Leslie "Jiver" Hutchinson. After learning the piano as a child, Delmar became a singer and toured with her father's band from the age of sixteen.
In 1952, she appeared in Finian's Rainbow in Liverpool. She sang with Coleridge Goode's group The Dominoes for a month in Germany in the mid-1950s, before going solo. Delmar also appeared in the Ken Russell film Mahler (1974).