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Bertram was born in Fentress County, Tennessee, United States, [1] into a musical family. Through the 1920s and 1930s, he played with other musicians of the Cumberland Plateau . Despite prevailing racial segregation , he played frequently with the white fiddler Leonard Rutherford, who would stay at Bertram's house to make music.
This category includes musicians, including singers, who were born in, residents of, ... Jazz musicians from Tennessee (68 P) S. Singers from Tennessee (4 C, 86 P)
DeFord Bailey (December 14, 1899 – July 2, 1982) [2] was an American country music and blues star from the 1920s until 1941. He was one of the first performers to be introduced on Nashville radio station WSM's Grand Ole Opry, [3] and becoming alongside Uncle Dave Macon one of the programs most famous performers.
Irvin Colloden Miller (February 19, 1884 – February 27, 1975) was an American actor, playwright, and vaudeville show writer and producer. He was responsible for successful theater shows including Broadway Rastus (1921), Liza (1922), Dinah (1923), which introduced the wildly popular black bottom dance, and Desires of 1927 starring Adelaide Hall.
Black Vaudeville is a term that specifically describes Vaudeville-era African American entertainers and the milieus of dance, music, and theatrical performances they created. Spanning the years between the 1880s and early 1930s, these acts not only brought elements and influences unique to American black culture directly to African Americans ...
A founding member of the National Association of Negro Musicians, White served as the organization's president from 1922 to 1924. [8] From 1924 to 1930, he taught at West Virginia State College and succeeded R. Nathaniel Dett as head of the music department of Hampton Institute from 1932 until 1935).
He won numerous awards during his music career, including 13 Grammys and the National Medal of Arts, and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Some of his most famous songs include ...
The following is a list of prominent people who were born in the U.S. state of ... (1920–1989), musician, ... (born 1959), Governor of Tennessee;born in Franklin. C