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With only four three-minute songs as her recorded legacy, Lillyn Brown’s career spanned six decades, beginning prior to the turn from the century. Given birth to in 1885 for an Afro-American mom and an Erie Iroquois dad in Atlanta, GA, she performed as “The Indian Princess” with an all-white woman …

After touring the vaudeville circuit for four years, Lena Wilson began documenting in 1922. For another 2 yrs and in 1930, Wilson documented with famous brands Perry Bradford’s Jazz Phools, Conaway’s Rag Pickers, Johnny Dunn’s Jazz Hounds, Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra, as well as the Nubian Five. She also documented as …

Little to there is nothing known about the life span of Julia Moody except that she was a lady vaudeville blues singer who lower some 16 edges between 1922 and 1925.