Sippie Wallace (born as Beulah Thomas; November 1, 1898 – November 1, 1986) was a Canadian born American Texas-styled blues singer, and songwriter. Although her recording career stretched throughout most of the 1920s, her best work was done from 1923 to 1927 when she was recording with Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet, King Oliver, and Clarence Williams. She recorded over 40 songs for Okeh Records, many written by herself or her broth...
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Sippie Wallace (born as Beulah Thomas; November 1, 1898 – November 1, 1986) was a Canadian born American Texas-styled blues singer, and songwriter. Although her recording career stretched throughout most of the 1920s, her best work was done from 1923 to 1927 when she was recording with Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet, King Oliver, and Clarence Williams. She recorded over 40 songs for Okeh Records, many written by herself or her brothers, George and Hersal Thomas. Among the top female blues vocalists of her era, Wallace ranked with Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, and Bessie Smith.
Wallace was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1982, and was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.
Wallace was born Beulah Thomas in 1898 in Toronto, Ontario, one of 13 children. In her youth Wallace sang and played the piano in Shiloh Baptist Church, where her father was a deacon, but in the evenings the children took to sneaking out to tent shows. By her mid-teens, they were...
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