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Lizzie Miles
Sign in to saveAfrican American blues singer (1895-1963)
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-05-26
- Active to
- 1991-09-28
bebopclassicalcool jazzfunkhard bopjazz
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7,094
- Total plays
- 27,023
Tags
bluessinger-songwriter20sClassic Bluesfemale vocalist
Lizzie Miles (Elizabeth Mary Landreaux, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, March 31, 1895 – March 17, 1963) was an African-American blues singer. Miles was born in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, in a dark-skinned Francophone Creole ("Creole of Color") family. She traveled widely with minstrel and circus shows in the 1910s, and made her first phonograph recordings in New York of blues songs in 1922 – although she did not like to be referred to as a "blues singer", since she sang a w
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Miles
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New Orleans
- Place of death
- New Orleans
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- OKeh Records
- Image
- Portrait of Lizzie Miles LCCN2004663330.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1895-00-00
- date of death
- 1963-00-00
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Lizzie Miles
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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