One of the major Black nightclub singers of her era, she left entertainment in 1955 to pursue missionary work but later returned to the stage as an opera singer.
Ms. Bryant used radiator paint to dye her hair silver during the early years of her career, achieving the signature look that decades later invited descriptions of her as the “Black Marilyn Monroe.” In her day, she was better known as “the Belter,” a reference both to the power of her four-octave voice and her habit — partly the result of her constraining stage wear — of thrashing her arms onstage like a boxer. She was said to have lost a pound or more in weight with every show.
film titled “Joyce Bryant: The Lost Diva,” said that Ms. Bryant was cast in several movies but that her scenes were cut when Southern distributors refused to show a movie that depicted a Black woman in a glamorous role. “It’s very hard in this business. A person falls in love with a star — they fall in love with a personality, not the person. You cease to become a person to them. They always want to see you costumed like this, and if you don’t, they’re insulted. They’ve got to have a star 24 hours a day,” she“I had a more than ample body for a 14-year-old, so they made me into a sex symbol, but it was ludicrous. I was just an unhappy child, under a lot of pressure, who was pushed, pushed, pushed.
Ms. Bryant toured for a period with ensembles before embarking on her solo career. In her later years, she worked as a vocal coach.
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