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Sissieretta Jones

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Photo, taken in 1909

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

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Alexander, George (Summer 2007). "The Soprano". American Legacy.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Sissieretta Jones". Women in History. Retrieved February 12, 2017.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.