Mable Lee (August 2, 1921 – February 7, 2019), an American jazz tap dancer, singer, and entertainer. Lee appeared on Broadway, at the Apollo Theater, and was known as "Queen of the Soundies" for performing in more than 100 soundies. Soundies were three-minute American musical films, produced between 1940 and 1947, each displaying a song, dance, and/or band or orchestral number.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Mable Lee was a child prodigy who began performing when she was 4 years old, at age 9 was performing in local clubs with a big band and as a 12-year-old was appearing at the Top Hat nightclub in Georgia.

Lee worked and traveled extensively with Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle from a teen, until her adult years. She graced the cover of Ebony Magazine in 1947.

After an extended run in Europe through 1951, Lee returned to New York and raised more than $350,000 for and starred in the Broadway revival of Eubie Blake's and Noble Sissle’s all-Black jazz-age musical Shuffle Along (1952). She sang "Craving for That Kind of Love'' and "You Ain't Been Vamped ‘til You've Been Vamped by a Brownskin."

She also sang with Eubie Blake on his album “Eubie Blake Song Hits: With Eubie and His Girls” (1976) making popular again the hit song "You Got to Git the Gittin,' While the Gettin's Good."

Lee continued to captivate audiences while mentoring the next generation of woman dancers such as The Bradley Sisters, Michelle Dorrance, Dormeshia and Michela Marino-Lerman. All were a part of Mable Lee’s Dancing Ladies until Lee’s death.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Tapology, Eubie Blake Center, Black Lindy Hoppers Fund, Collective Voices of Change, American Tap Dance Foundation, Duke Ellington Center for the Arts, Jerome Shavers, Michael Mansfield, Dorrance Dance, Tap Legacy, Mike Thibault of Swing Out New Hampshire for donating archival footage, costumes, and artifacts as well as Thomas James, Sharayna Christmas, Derek Price, and Brinae Ali.