Suzette Tarri

Ada Barbara Harriett Tarry (2 January 1881 – 10 October 1955), known by her stage name Suzette Tarri, was an English comedian and singer, popular on radio as well as on stage in the 1930s and 1940s.

Biography She was born in Hoxton, London. She performed as a child violinist in the 1890s, and made her first stage appearance as a singer in Walthamstow in 1905. In her early career, she specialised in roles as a theatrical soubrette, singing light comic songs, and by 1913 was regularly accompanied by her husband, the Scottish singer and comic entertainer Tom Copeland. They later married. When Jenkins moved into music publishing, Tarri continued as a solo act, performing in clubs and theatres. Much of her material was drawn from overheard real life conversations.

She remained a popular performer on stage and on radio during the Second World War. She headlined her own 1939 radio programme, Tarri Awhile, and won the Sunday Chronicle's "Number 1 Comedienne" award in 1945. She was at one time the president of the Concert Artistes Association.

Her final appearances both on radio and stage came in 1954, by which time she was suffering from cancer. She died in Southgate, London, in 1955, aged 74.