Clara Smith
Sign in to saveAmerican classic blues singer (1894–1935)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Potty Training in 3 Days
- First Course in Higher Algebra
- New Crock Pot Recipes
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1969-08-06
- Active to
- 2003-10-21
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Discography
- Shytown / No Confidence Man1994
- Roman Candle1994
- Needle in the Hay1995
- Elliott Smith1995
- Speed Trials1996
- Division Day / No Name #61997
- Either/Or1997
- Ballad of Big Nothing1998
- XO1998
- Waltz #2 (XO)1998
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- 12,112
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- 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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Clara
- Family name
- Smith
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Spartanburg
- Place of death
- Detroit
- Occupation
- singer
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Columbia Records
Show 4 more facts
- date of death
- 1935-02-02
- date of birth
- 1894-08-23
- start of work period
- 1935-00-00
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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