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Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (1817 – March 31, 1876), dubbed "The Black Swan" (a play on Jenny Lind's sobriquet, "The Swedish Nightingale" and Catherine Hayes's "The Irish Swan"), [1] [2] was an American singer considered the best-known Black concert artist of her time.
Founder of Black Swan Records Harry Herbert Pace (January 6, 1884 – July 19, 1943) was an American music publisher and insurance executive. He was the founder of Black Swan Records , the first record label owned by an African American with wide distribution capabilities.
When Harry Pace left the company to start Black Swan Records, he took Henderson with him to be musical director, a job which lasted from 1921 until 1923. [4] From 1920 to 1923, he primarily played piano accompaniment for blues singers. [10] Henderson toured with the Black Swan Troubadours featuring Ethel Waters from October 1921 to July 1922. [11]
Colin Gibb, the singer who represented the UK at Eurovision with British pop band Black Lace in 1979, has died just days after retiring, aged 70.. With Black Lace, the Leeds-born musician rose to ...
Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, on October 31, 1896 (some sources incorrectly state her birth year as 1900 [5] [1] [6]) as a result of the rape of her teenaged African-American mother, Louise Anderson (1881–1962), [1] by 17-year-old John Wesley (or Wesley John) Waters (1878–1901), [1] a pianist and family acquaintance from a middle-class African-American background.
She also worked on the Theater Owners Booking Association vaudeville circuit before making her first recordings for Black Swan Records in 1922, [7] among which was "My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)" (1922), [8] written by J. Berni Barbour, of historical interest as the first record to refer to "rocking" and "rolling" in a secular context. [9]
The former ballerina convicted of killing her well-heeled husband — in a sensational case that came to be known as the “Black Swan murder” — has been sentenced to 20 years in prison ...
Former ballerina Ashley Benefield, convicted of killing her husband in the notorious "Black Swan" murder case, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday.