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Valaida Snow
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1904-06-02
- Active to
- 1956-05-30
2008 universal fire victimjazz
Discography
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- 11,253
- Total plays
- 54,499
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Valaida Snow (born June 2, 1904, Chattanooga, Tennessee; died May 30, 1956, New York City) was an African American jazz musician and entertainer. Raised in Cleveland City, Tennessee by a family devoted to music, she learned to play cello, bass, banjo, violin, mandolin, harp, accordion, clarinet, trumpet, and saxophone at professional levels by the time she was 15. She also sang and danced. After focusing on the trumpet, Valaida quickly became so famous that she was named "Little Louis" after Lo
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Snow
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chattanooga
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Chess Records
- Image
- Valaida Snow Billboard.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1902-06-02
- date of death
- 1956-05-30
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- Commons category
- Valaida Snow
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of detention
- Vestre Prison
- cause of death
- stroke
- described at URL
- www.nytimes.com/2020/02/22/obituaries/valaida-snow-overlooked-black-history-month.html
- writing language
- English language
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