Lena Wilson

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Lena Wilson (* about 1898 in Charlotte (North Carolina) , † about 1939 in New York City ) was an American blues - singer .

Live and act

Wilson was adopted and sang 1918-1920 with her brother Danny Wilson as a vaudeville artist in the touring program of the Theater Owners Booking Association in the southern United States. In 1921, the siblings in Louisville (Kentucky) appeared with Edith Goodall , who soon married Danny and performed with them in a trio. Danny, who accompanied the two as a pianist, encouraged them to perform not only blues songs, but also other songs.

Most of Lena Wilson's recordings were made between 1922 and 1924, and also in 1930. She worked with various musicians and bands, such as Nubian Five , Perry Bradford 's Jazz Phools, Conaway's Rag Pickers , Fletcher Henderson , Johnny Dunn 's Jazz Hounds, Danny Wilson and Edith Wilson. She also recorded under her own name with an ensemble called The Jazz Hounds , in which Gus Aiken (trumpet), Garvin Bushell (clarinet), Herb Flemming (trombone), John Mitchell (banjo) and Porter Grainger and Cliff Jackson (piano) played . Her major recordings include Memphis, Tennessee , Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do , Chiropractor Blues, and Love Ain't Blind No More .

Wilson also sang in several Harlem music revues during the 1920s . In the following decade she married the violinist Shrimp Jones, and then performed in New York City . She died in New York around 1939, likely of pneumonia .

Web links

literature

  • Harris, Sheldon (1994). Blues Who's Who (Revised Ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80155-8
  • Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: blues queens of the 1920s . New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8
  • Wintz, Cary D. and Paul Finkelman (2004). Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Volume 1 . Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-57958-389-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Thedeadrockstarsclub.com - accessed November 1, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Harris 1994, p. 583
  3. ↑ Harrison 1990, pp. 174-175
  4. ↑ Wintz & Finkelman 2004, p. 163
  5. ↑ Harris 1994, p. 584
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Lena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues singer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlotte, North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH around 1939
Place of death New York City