found: Black and blue [SR] p1990:container insert (Linda Hopkins)
found: Mapp, E. Dir. of Blacks in the perf. arts, 2nd ed.(Hopkins, Linda (Linda Mathews); b. Dec. 14, 1925, New Orleans, LA; singer)
found: Grove music online, Apr. 18, 2012:Jazz (Hopkins, Linda (Matthews, Helen Melinda); b. Nov. 9, 1925, New Orleans; American singer)
found: Masterworks Broadway, WWW site, Apr. 18, 2012(Linda Hopkins; b. Helen Melinda Matthews, Dec. 14, 1924, New Orleans; African-American blues and gospel singer who has also had considerable success as an actress on stage and screen)
found: Black Cat Rockabilly Europe WWW site, Apr. 18, 2012(Linda Hopkins; b. Melinda Helen Mathews, Dec. 14, 1924, New Orleans, La.; singer and stage performer; has recorded traditional and urban blues, soul, jazz, gospel, show tunes, and classical music)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Apr. 12, 2017(in obituary published Apr. 11: Linda Hopkins; b. Melinda Helen Matthews, Dec. 14, 1924, New Orleans; known as Helen; teenage vocalist Little Esther Phillips came up with the stage name Linda Hopkins; d. Monday [Apr. 10, 2017], Milwaukee, aged 92; her soaring, gospel-rooted voice was heard on Broadway in the 1970s in Inner city and the one-woman show Me and Bessie, and in the 1980s in the long-running revue Black and blue)