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Clara Smith

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American classic blues singer (1894–1935)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1969-08-06
Active to
2003-10-21
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12,112
Total plays
44,480

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Clara Smith (c. 1894 - 2 February 1935) was a popular blues singer. Clara Smith was born in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. In her youth she worked on African American theater circuits and tent shows. By the late 1910s she was appearing as a headliner at the Lyric Theater in New Orleans and on the T. O. B. A. circuit. In 1923 she settled in New York City, appearing at cabarets and speakeasies there; that same year she made the first of her commercially successful series of gramophone record

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date of death
1935-02-02
date of birth
1894-08-23
start of work period
1935-00-00
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