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African American blues singer (1895-1963)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1926-05-26
Active to
1991-09-28
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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

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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
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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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