Elvera Sanchez
American dancer and the mother of Sammy Davis Jr. (1905–2000)
Elvera Sanchez
Elvera "Baby" Sánchez Davis (September 1, 1905 – September 3, 2000) was an American dancer and the mother of Sammy Davis Jr. Davis Jr. stated that his mother was Puerto Rican and born in San Juan; however, in the 2003 biography In Black and White, author Wil Haygood wrote that Davis' mother was born in New York City, of Afro-Cuban descent, and that Davis claimed she was Puerto Rican because he feared anti-Cuban backlash would hurt his record sales.
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