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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1933-05-03
- Active to
- 2006-12-25
blueschristmas musicdiscofilm soundtrackfunkrhythm & blues
Discography
- James Browns Presents His Band & Five Other Great Artists1961
- Prisoner of Love1963
- Grits & Soul1964
- Showtime1964
- Sings Out of Sight1965
- James Brown Plays James Brown: Yesterday and Today1965
- Handful of Soul1966
- James Brown Plays New Breed1966
- James Brown Sings Raw Soul1967
- James Brown Plays the Real Thing1967
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- 410
Lillyn Brown (Lillian Thomas, Atlanta, Georgia, 1885 - 1969) was an American minstrel show, vaudeville, musical theatre and blues singer. She was half Erie Iroquois Indian and was sometimes billed as the "Indian Princess", other times "The Youngest Interlocutor in the World", because she had a song and dance act where she was a male impersonator. Lillyn Brown was, according to herself, the first professional singer who sang the blues to an audience, in 1908 at the "Little Strand Theatre" in Ch
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Brown
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Atlanta
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- actor
- Movement
- Harlem Renaissance
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Lillian Thomas (aka Lillyn Brown) circa 1920.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1885-04-24
- date of death
- 1969-06-08
- birth name
- Lillian Thomas
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- Commons category
- Lillyn Brown
- start of work period
- 1894-00-00
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