Aida Ward (February 11, 1900 – June 23, 1984[1]) was an American jazz singer.
Born in Washington, D.C., Ward rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s in New York, on Broadway and at Harlem's Cotton Club.
[2] She appeared alongside Adelaide Hall and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the hit Broadway musical revue Blackbirds of 1928.
[3] Throughout the 1930s, Ward appeared regularly at the Cotton Club, performing with Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway.
[4] She was associated with the introduction of the songs "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"[5] and "I've Got the World on a String"[6] at the Cotton Club in 1931-2.