Sissieretta Jones
Sissieretta Jones was a American singer. She was born in either on the 5th of January 1868 or the 5th of January 1869 and died on the 24th of June 1933.[1][2] She sang for 4 presidents of the US and the British royal family and was awarded with success.[3][2][1] She was the most paid black singer of her era and later started the Black Patti Troubadours, a club with 40 different jugglers, comedians, dancers, and singers.[4][2] She retired from singing in 1915.[5]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alexander, George (Summer 2007). "The Soprano". American Legacy.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Sissieretta Jones". Women in History. Retrieved February 12, 2017.
- ↑ Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed. (1999). "M. Sissieretta Jones". Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. New York: Basic Civitas Books. p. 1065.
- ↑ Graziano, John (2000). "The Early Life and Career of the "Black Patti": The Odyssey of an African American Singer in the Late Nineteenth Century". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 53 (3): 543–596. doi:10.2307/831938. JSTOR 831938.
- ↑ Abbott, Lynn; Seroff, Doug (2007). Ragged but right black traveling shows, "coon songs," and the dark pathway to blues and jazz. University Press of Mississippi.