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A Good Man Is Hard To Find From Blue Jasmine by Lizzie Miles
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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 Wide Repertory Of Music.
In The Mid-1920s Miles Spent Time Performing In Paris Before Returning To The United States. She Suffered A Serious Illness And Retired From The Music Industry In The 1930s. Not Before She Recorded "My Man O' War" Described By One Music Journalist As "a Composition Stuffed With Rococo Suggestiveness". In The 1940s She Returned To New Orleans Where Joe Mares Encouraged Her To Sing Again—which She Did But Always From In Front Of Or Beside The Stage Since She Said She Had Vowed In A Prayer Not To Go On Stage Again If She Recovered From Her Illness. Miles Was Based In San Francisco California In The Early 1950s Then Again Returned To New Orleans Where She Recorded With Several Dixieland And Traditional Jazz Bands And Made Regular Radio Broadcasts Often Performing With Bob Scobey Or George Lewis.
In 1958 Miles Appeared At The Monterey Jazz Festival. In 1959 She Quit Singing Except For Gospel Music. She Died In New Orleans From A Heart Attack In March 1963.
Her Half Sister Edna Hicks Was Also A Blues Singer.
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Biography - Lizzie Miles
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 Wide Repertory Of Music.
In The Mid-1920s Miles Spent Time Performing In Paris Before Returning To The United States. She Suffered A Serious Illness And Retired From The Music Industry In The 1930s. Not Before She Recorded "My Man O' War" Described By One Music Journalist As "a Composition Stuffed With Rococo Suggestiveness". In The 1940s She Returned To New Orleans Where Joe Mares Encouraged Her To Sing Again—which She Did But Always From In Front Of Or Beside The Stage Since She Said She Had Vowed In A Prayer Not To Go On Stage Again If She Recovered From Her Illness. Miles Was Based In San Francisco California In The Early 1950s Then Again Returned To New Orleans Where She Recorded With Several Dixieland And Traditional Jazz Bands And Made Regular Radio Broadcasts Often Performing With Bob Scobey Or George Lewis.
In 1958 Miles Appeared At The Monterey Jazz Festival. In 1959 She Quit Singing Except For Gospel Music. She Died In New Orleans From A Heart Attack In March 1963.
Her Half Sister Edna Hicks Was Also A Blues Singer. read less
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In The Mid-1920s Miles Spent Time Performing In Paris Before Returning To The United States. She Suffered A Serious Illness And Retired From The Music Industry In The 1930s. Not Before She Recorded "My Man O' War" Described By One Music Journalist As "a Composition Stuffed With Rococo Suggestiveness". In The 1940s She Returned To New Orleans Where Joe Mares Encouraged Her To Sing Again—which She Did But Always From In Front Of Or Beside The Stage Since She Said She Had Vowed In A Prayer Not To Go On Stage Again If She Recovered From Her Illness. Miles Was Based In San Francisco California In The Early 1950s Then Again Returned To New Orleans Where She Recorded With Several Dixieland And Traditional Jazz Bands And Made Regular Radio Broadcasts Often Performing With Bob Scobey Or George Lewis.
In 1958 Miles Appeared At The Monterey Jazz Festival. In 1959 She Quit Singing Except For Gospel Music. She Died In New Orleans From A Heart Attack In March 1963.
Her Half Sister Edna Hicks Was Also A Blues Singer. read less
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