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Ma Rainey's granddaughter, Rosemary Rainey performing a song as her grandmother! It is a nice black
Biography Ma Rainey
Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey (April 26,
1886 ? December 22, 1939), was one of the earliest known American
professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers
to record. She was billed as The Mother of the Blues. She did much to
develop and popularize the form and was an important influence on younger
blues women, such as Bessie Smith, and their careers.
Career Rainey was born in Columbus, Georgia.[LINK:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=2477&PIgrid=2477&PIcrid=36417&PIpi=82955&]
Find a Grave: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey She first appeared on stage in Columbus
in "A Bunch of Blackberries" at fourteen. She then joined a traveling
vaudeville troupe, the Rabbit Foot Minstrels. After hearing a blues song at
a theater in St. Louis, Missouri sung by a local girl in 1902, she started
performing in a blues sty
Discography
The Essential
Mother of the Blues: 1923-1928
Black Cat Hoot Owl
Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 4 (1926-1927)
Paramounts Chronologically, Vol. 5
