This is Ethel Ennis, Baltimore born and international renowned singer with the buttery soft voice, on opening night of Ethel's place, her cabaret-supper club across the street from the Meyerhoff. It is February 18,1985. This is the same Ethel Ennis who, born on Calhoun street in West Baltimore in 1938, was, by the time she was only seven playing a mean piano; by fifteen, she had cultivated her famous intimate style and was singing with blues and jazz artists: first in Baltimore, then throughout the country; then, London.