Jenny Alpha (22 April 1910 – 8 September 2010) was a Martinique-born French actress and singer, who appeared in more than a hundred theatre productions and movies.
[5] In 1947, Jenny Alpha is chosen as a model by artist Lemagny (grand Prize of Rome) for a French postal stamp to represent the Martinique.
In 1956 she attends the first Conference of Black writers where she met Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Richard Wright, Langsthon Hugues.
[6] After her career in Jazz club, she gets her breakthrough in theatre in 1984 in La folie ordinaire d’une fille de Cham by French writer Julius Amédée Laou.
[2] Late in life, in 2005, she appeared in the film Monsieur Étienne,[7] and in 2008 recorded a final album, La sérénade du muguet.