Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, also known as “Bricktop,” was an African-American woman living during the Harlem Renaissance. Bricktop’s first job was as a singer in a nightclub called the Barron’s Exclusive Club. Bricktop sang along side Duke Ellington, a popular African-American jazz musician, among others. Bricktop lived in France for big part of her life. One of the many of the things she did there was she replaced the lead singer at a club called Le Grand Duc. Becoming a lead singer as an African-American in France was a rare occurrence because even outside of America she was discriminated against. Bricktop had two significant clubs in her lifetime, The Music Box and Bricktop’s. The Music Box in Paris was Bricktop’s
