Hannah Sylvester
Hannah Sylvester (January 19, 1903 – October 15, 1973)[1] was an American blues singer who performed in the classic female blues style, which was popular during the 1920s. She was billed as "Harlem's Mae West".[2]
Biography
Sylvester was born in
She toured with the Snooky Russell Orchestra in 1940.By the early 1950s Sylvester worked primarily outside music; she tended bar at the Celebrity Club in New York City and occasionally sang there with the
Buddy Tate Band. She appeared in the X-Glamour Girls revue in New York City in 1962. In that year she recorded for Victoria Spivey's Spivey Records
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Sylvester died in New York City on October 15, 1973.
Notes
- ISBN 978-0313344237.
- ^ Harris 1994, p. 492.
- ^ a b c Harris 1994, p. 491.
References
- ISBN 0-306-80155-8.
- Stewart-Baxter, Derrick (1970). Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers. London: Studio Vista. OCLC 250212516.
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