Rosa Henderson

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Rosa Henderson (born November 24, 1896 in Henderson (Kentucky) as Rosa Deschamps ; † April 6, 1968 in Roosevelt Island , New York City ) was an American jazz and blues musician ( vocals , songwriting ) who was considered one of the singers of the classical Blues in the 1920s and 1930s applies. She also recorded under the pseudonyms Sally Ritz, Flora Dale, Sarah Johnson, Josephine Thomas, Gladys White, and Mamie Harris.

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Henderson's career began in 1913 when she sang in her uncle's carnival troupe. She lived in Texas until she married Douglas "Slim" Henderson in 1918; then she started touring with his Mason Henderson show. Since the early 1920s she appeared in New York on Broadway and also in London in musicals and shows. In The Harlem Rounders (1927), blackouts of 1929 and Blackberries Revue (1930) she was in central roles on stage.

From 1923 to 1931 Henderson recorded nearly a hundred songs for Ajax Records , Columbia Records , Domino Records , Okeh , Paramount, Pathé , Victor and Vocalion Records . She was accompanied by the bands of Fletcher Henderson and the Kansas City Five, as well as Coleman Hawkins , Louis Metcalf , Rex Stewart , Fats Waller and James P. Johnson . Her recordings include Afternoon Blues (1923), Doggone Blues (1931), Do Right Blues (1924), He May Be Your Dog But He's Wearing My Collar (1924) and Papa if You Can't Do Better (I'll Let a Better Papa Move In) (1926). In Fletcher Henderson's recording of Do That Thing for Vocalion (on May 28, 1924) she was still engaged as a singer.

In 1932 she ended her professional career as a singer and took a job in a New York department store. Until the 1960s, however, she performed at benefit concerts. She died of a heart attack.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry (Encyclopedia of Popular Music)
  2. ↑ a b Leantin L. Brack & Jessie Carney Smith: Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era . Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2014, ISBN 978-0-8108-8542-4 , pp. 104 .
  3. ^ Cary D. Wintz, Paul Finkelman: Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: KY . Routledge, New York, London 2005, ISBN 978-1-57958-458-0 .
  4. ↑ Craig Martin Gibbs Black Recording Artists, 1877-1926: An Annotated Discography McFarland 2013, p. 210
personal data
SURNAME Henderson, Rosa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deschamps, Rosa (maiden name); Ritz, Sally (pseudonym); Dale, Flora (pseudonym); Johnson, Sarah (pen name); Thomas, Josephine (pseudonym); White, Gladys (pseudonym); Harris, Mamie (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and blues musician (vocals, songwriting)
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Henderson (Kentucky)
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1968
Place of death Roosevelt Island , New York City