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Ma Rainey biography. A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 1000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians. ... In 1902 she married the song and dance man William "Pa" Rainey and from then on became known as Ma Rainey. The couple formed...
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www.redhotjazz.com/rainey.html
www.redhotjazz.com/rainey.html
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Ma Rainey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett Rainey , better known as Ma Rainey (September, 1882 or April 26, 1886– December 22, 1939), was one of the earliest known American professional blues singers and one of...
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play - one of a ten-play cycle by August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright - that chronicles twentieth century African American experience. The...
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When the blues faded from popularity in the Thirties, the earthy Ma Rainey returned home to her Georgia hometown, where she ran two theaters until her death from a heart attack in 1939.
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www.rockhall.com/inductee/ma-rainey
www.rockhall.com/inductee/ma-rainey
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A look at the life and work of singer Ma Rainey on Biography.com ... "Ma Rainey probably did pass some of her singing experience on to Bessie," explained Chris Albertson in the liner notes to Giants of Jazz, "but the instruction must have been rudimentary.
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www.biography.com/articles/Ma-Rainey-9542413
www.biography.com/articles/Ma-Rainey-9542413
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Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey (April 26, 1886 -- December 22, 1939), was one of the earliest known American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record.
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Ma Rainey was once the most celebrated of all -- the "Mother of the Blues" had been singing the music for more than 20 years before she made her recording debut (Paramount, 1923). With the advent of blues records, she became even more influential, immortalizing such songs as "See See Rider," "Bo-Weavil Blues," and...
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www.vh1.com/artists/az/rainey_ma/bio.jhtml
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