Sippie Wallace
Blues, Musical Artist
1898 – 1986
Who was Sippie Wallace?
Sippie Wallace was an American singer-songwriter. Her early career in local tent shows gained her the billing "The Texas Nightingale". Between 1923 and 1927, she recorded over 40 songs for Okeh Records, many written by herself or her brothers, George and Hersal Thomas. Her accompanists included Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet, King Oliver, and Clarence Williams. Among the top female blues vocalists of her era, Wallace ranked with Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, and Bessie Smith.
In the 1930s, she left show business to become a church organist, singer, and choir director in Detroit, and performed secular music only sporadically until the 1960s, when she resumed her career. Wallace was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1982, and was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.
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- Born
- Nov 1, 1898
Houston - Also known as
- Sippy Wallace
- Wallace, Sippie
- Beulah Belle Thomas
- Beulah Thomas
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Matt Wallace
(1917 - 1936)
- Matt Wallace
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Nov 1, 1986
Detroit
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on July 23, 2013
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