Bessie Brown

Bessie Brown (Cleveland, Ohio 1895 - 1955), was a blues and classic jazz singer. She, like so many other female classic Blues singers of the 1920s. had a background in vaudeville and musical theatre. Throughout the 1920s she appeared in musical revues such as the "Moonshine Revue", "The Whirl Of Joy" and "Dark-Town Frolics". Brown also sang in cabarets on the East coast. Her recording career lasted from 1925 to 1928. Some of her records were issued under the pseudonyms of Sadie Green or Caroline Lee. She left show business in 1932 and had three children. Brown died of a heart attack in 1955.