Tiana
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Post by Tiana on May 7, 2009 7:34:45 GMT -5
Ma Rainey
In 1886, Blues Entertainer Ma Rainey was born. "Mother of the Blues", she was the first great Black professional blues vocalist.
Gertrude Malissa Nix Rainey Pridgitt was from Columbus, Ga. From 1904, she toured southern American tent shows, levee camps, and cabarets in a song-and-dance team with her husband, William ("Pa") Rainey, a minstrel comic. She performed in the theatrical circuits of the South and Midwest through the 1920s, leading her own troupes, including at times, Bessie Smith and Thomas A. ("Georgia Tom") Dorsey.
Rainey recorded more than 90 songs from 1923 through 1928 with country blues musicians and Black jazz players. An outstanding, earthy stage presence, she retired in 1933, to own and operate two Georgia theaters and to join the Friendship Baptist Church. She died on December 22, 1939 in Rome, Ga.
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Post by nubaka on May 7, 2009 15:09:03 GMT -5
Ma Rainey In 1886, Blues Entertainer Ma Rainey was born. "Mother of the Blues", she was the first great Black professional blues vocalist. Gertrude Malissa Nix Rainey Pridgitt was from Columbus, Ga. From 1904, she toured southern American tent shows, levee camps, and cabarets in a song-and-dance team with her husband, William ("Pa") Rainey, a minstrel comic. She performed in the theatrical circuits of the South and Midwest through the 1920s, leading her own troupes, including at times, Bessie Smith and Thomas A. ("Georgia Tom") Dorsey. Rainey recorded more than 90 songs from 1923 through 1928 with country blues musicians and Black jazz players. An outstanding, earthy stage presence, she retired in 1933, to own and operate two Georgia theaters and to join the Friendship Baptist Church. She died on December 22, 1939 in Rome, Ga. Great drop T, many Blues artist copied her style and she was truly the Queen of the Blues, may she rest RIP |
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Post by Nubian Zuri* on May 7, 2009 17:10:50 GMT -5
Ma Rainey In 1886, Blues Entertainer Ma Rainey was born. "Mother of the Blues", she was the first great Black professional blues vocalist. Gertrude Malissa Nix Rainey Pridgitt was from Columbus, Ga. From 1904, she toured southern American tent shows, levee camps, and cabarets in a song-and-dance team with her husband, William ("Pa") Rainey, a minstrel comic. She performed in the theatrical circuits of the South and Midwest through the 1920s, leading her own troupes, including at times, Bessie Smith and Thomas A. ("Georgia Tom") Dorsey. Rainey recorded more than 90 songs from 1923 through 1928 with country blues musicians and Black jazz players. An outstanding, earthy stage presence, she retired in 1933, to own and operate two Georgia theaters and to join the Friendship Baptist Church. She died on December 22, 1939 in Rome, Ga. Nice Tiana She really had a sweet blues sound in her time. Good post :-) |
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