Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1919-10-01
- Active to
- 1966-10-26
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 824
- Total plays
- 1,825
Tags
r&bblues
Jessie Mae Robinson (née Booker, October 1, 1918 – October 26, 1966) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist whose compositions included many rhythm & blues and pop hits of the 1940s and 1950s, including "Black Night", "I Went To Your Wedding", and "Let's Have a Party". Jessie Mae Booker was born in Call, Texas, but was raised in Los Angeles where she started writing songs in her teens, and met and married Leonard Robinson. After a few years she began pitching her songs to performers and
Connections
Categories
1918 births1966 deaths20th-century African-American musicians20th-century African-American women20th-century American songwriters20th-century American women musiciansAfrican-American songwritersAfrican-American women musiciansAmerican women songwritersMusicians from Los AngelesPeople from Newton County, TexasSongwriters from California