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A classic feminine blues singer who performed and documented from the first ’20s to the past due ’30s, Viola McCoy was created in either Mississippi or Tennessee (accounts vary), moving to NEW YORK in the first ’20s, where she was energetic in revues and cabarets. Her documenting profession lasted from …

b. 14 August 1894, Brockville, Ontario, Canada, d. 20 Apr 1956, Albany, NY, USA. Energetic on Broadway in the past due 10s and in to the middle-40s, Kearns made an appearance within the musicals Miss Daisy (1914), ARRIVE (1919), Tickle Me (1920) and Tangerine (1921). Within the last mentioned he …