Mamie Smith [SEP] place of death
's "Smart Set". In 1913, she left the Tutt Brothers to sing in clubs in Harlem and married William "Smitty" Smith, a singer.
Musical career.
On February 14, 1920, Smith recorded "That Thing Called Love" and "You Can't Keep a Good Man Down" for Okeh Records, in New York City, after African-American songwriter and bandleader Perry Bradford persuaded Fred Hagar to break the color barrier in black music recording. Okeh records would go on to record many
, New York. Smith’s re-interment was celebrated with a gala honoring the late singer on January 27, 1964.
However, according to the 2013 campaign website 1World1Family.me, Mamie Smith was still buried without a headstone or marker 67 years after her death. The campaign site Indiegogo asked for donations to build a headstone featuring an image of the late blues singer on a "4-Foot high monument" to be erected at Frederick Douglass Cemetery in Staten Island, New York.
External links.
- Mamie Smith African