Ann Cook (April 1886[1] – September 29, 1962) was an American blues and gospel singer.

Born and raised in rural Louisiana in an area named Fazendeville in St. Bernard Parish,[1] Cook moved to New Orleans as a teenager.

She worked as a prostitute and singer in the Storyville neighborhood, living in an area known as "The Battlefield".

At the time, her voice was considered so well-liked that it could "stop the traffic on Rampart Street".

[2] In the late 1940s and 1950s, Cook left the blues and began to take up gospel music, working with Wooden Joe Nicholas and his band on the single The Lord Will Make a Way, released in 1949.