Trixie Smith
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African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress
Why Is Trixie Smith Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Trixie Smith was an American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress. She made four dozen recordings. Biography Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Smith came from a middle-class background. Various years are given for her birth including 1885, 1888, and 1895. She attended Selma University, in Alabama, before moving to New York City at the age of twenty around 1915. Soon after, she began working in a number of different cafés and theaters in Harlem and Philadelphia.
