演员与歌手艾萨·凯特

中等

初中二年级

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个人情况

艾萨·凯特是一名歌手与演员，她出身于一个贫困家庭，从小学习舞蹈与音乐，她死于癌症，享年81岁。

C’est Si Bon or It’s So Good in French, was one of Eartha Kitt’s first hit songs. She recorded it in the early 1950s. But Eartha Kitt’s life was not always so good. She had a very difficult childhood although information about her early history is limited.

用法语唱的《小野丽莎》或者《它是如此好》，是艾萨·凯特第一张歌曲中的两首。她是在20世纪50年代早期录制的。但是艾萨·凯特的生活并不是一直那么好。虽然关于她的早年历史有很少的信息，但是她的童年很不幸。

Eartha Mae Keith was born in a poor, rural family in South Carolina in 1927. Her mother was an African. Her father was a white farmer. When Eartha was eight, she was sent to New York to live with an aunt in the African-American neighborhood of Harlem. The aunt helped pay for piano and dance lessons for Eartha. But she also beat the girl. Eartha would run away after beating.

艾萨·凯特出生于1927年的南卡罗莱纳州一个贫穷的乡下家庭中。她的母亲是非洲人，她的爸爸是一个白种农民。当艾萨·凯特八岁的时候，她被送到了在非洲-美国哈莱姆街区纽约城中与她的姨妈一起生活。她姨妈为她付钢琴与舞蹈的钱。但是也打这个女孩子。在被打后，艾萨就会逃离。

Eartha Kitt lived on the streets and worked in a factory as a young teenager. But she kept up her dance lessons. One day she decided to try out for a famous African-American dance company. Soon, Eartha was performing in shows around the world with the Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe. In Paris, Eartha left the dance company to sing in a nightclub. Her voice was unusual. She learned French quickly and gained many French fans. The film director Orson Welles discovered Eartha Kitt singing in Paris. He called her “the most exciting woman in the world”.

在年青时，艾萨·凯特生活在街上，在一家厂里工作。但她继续坚持她的舞蹈课。一天她决定去试一下一家著名的美国非洲舞蹈公司。很快，艾萨随凯瑟琳·邓纳姆舞蹈团在全世界各地演出。在巴黎，艾萨·凯特离开舞蹈公司去夜店唱歌。她的声音很不寻常，她学法语学得很快，而且获得了很多法国粉丝。电影导演奥森·威尔斯发现了在巴黎唱歌的艾萨·凯特。他称她是“世界上最令人激动的女人”。