Valadia snow was a famous musician. She was known for playing the trumpet.While touring through Denmark in 1941, she was arrested by the Nazis and probably kept at Vestre Faengsel ,a Danish prison in Copenhagen that was run by the Nazis, before being released on a prisoner exchange in May 1942. According to jazz historian Scott Yanow, "she never emotionally recovered from the experience". She later married Earl Edwards. In the 1950s, she was unable to regain her former success.
Valaida Snow died of a brain hemorrhage on May 30, 1956, in New York City, backstage during a performance at the Palace Theater.

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