Valaida Snow was a black jazz song and dance performer in the 1920s and 30s, who famously also played solo trumpet in a man’s world. She toured around the world until she fell foul of the German occupying force in Denmark.
Now Candace Allen has painstakingly pieced together Valaida’s life and dramatised it into a novel, Valaida. Candace joins Jenni to tell her why Valaida’s story appealed to her and how the racism that she encountered in her life is still prevalent today.
