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Bessie Brown

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American classic blues, jazz, and cabaret singer

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Bessie Brown (Cleveland, Ohio 1895 - 1955), was a blues and classic jazz singer. She, like so many other female classic Blues singers of the 1920s. had a background in vaudeville and musical theatre. Throughout the 1920s she appeared in musical revues such as the "Moonshine Revue", "The Whirl Of Joy" and "Dark-Town Frolics". Brown also sang in cabarets on the East coast. Her recording career lasted from 1925 to 1928. Some of her records were issued under the pseudonyms of Sadie Green or Caroline

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Brown
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Cleveland
Place of death
Cleveland
Occupation
jazz musician
Genre
jazz
Instrument
voice
Record label
Pathé
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cause of death
myocardial infarction
date of birth
1895-01-01
date of death
1955-01-01
manner of death
natural causes
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