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Phyllis Linda Hyman (July 6, 1949 – June 30, 1995) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Hyman's music career spanned the late 1970s through the early 1990s, and she was best known for her expansive contralto range. [3]
Settling in Philadelphia, Greenfield ran a music studio and promoted Black singers. Among her voice pupils was Thomas Bowers. [19] [20] She was a member of the Philadelphia Shiloh Baptist Church, and directed its choir. [11] [2] In the 1860s she created an opera troupe, the Black Swan Opera Troupe, with Bowers, which she directed.
Vicki Sue Robinson (May 31, 1954 [1] – April 27, 2000) [3] was an American singer, closely associated with the disco era of late 1970s pop music; she is most famous for her 1976 hit, "Turn the Beat Around". [3]
Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) [1] was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance.. Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House, a well-known gay speakeasy in New York in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer.
Singers from Philadelphia (1 C, 183 P) Pages in category "Musicians from Philadelphia" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 419 total.
Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress, singer and author. [1] After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. [2]
Thomas Bowers was born in 1836 in Philadelphia. His father, John C. Bowers Sr. (1773–1844), was a secondhand clothing dealer, a vestryman and school trustee at St. Thomas African Episcopal Church, and one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.
As she did not obtain a degree, Annie Anderson was unable to teach in Philadelphia under a law that was applied only to black teachers and not white ones. [4] She therefore earned an income caring for small children. Marian was the eldest of the three Anderson children. Her two sisters, Alyse (1899–1965) and Ethel (1902–90), also became ...