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Today in Fresh Air History

Remembering Cabaret Star Wesla Whitfield

Whitfield, who died Feb. 9, started in the San Francisco Opera in the 1970s before moving on to piano bars. She later performed regularly at New York's Algonquin Hotel. Originally broadcast in 1988.

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