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Vivian Reed is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she was trained as a classical vocalist at the Juilliard School and originally planned on pursuing a career as an opera singer. Her path was reoriented into a career in popular music after she began performing at Pauline's Interlude Cafe in Harlem while a college student. Under the guidance of Honi Coles and Bobby Schiffman, the latter the owner of the Apollo Theatre, she became an R & B and Soul music performer under contract with Epic Records from 1968 to 1971. She performed frequently at the Apollo from 1966 into the mid-1970s. She also recorded two albums with United Artists Records in the 1970s. In 1972 Reed made her theatrical stage debut in the short lived Broadway revue That's Entertainment. She returned to Broadway soon after in Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope; replacing Micki Grant for six weeks in the original New York production. She would later appear in numerous productions of this show both in the United States and abroad in stagings spanning a twenty-five year period. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
