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1895 - Lizzie Miles was born on this day. Elizabeth Mary [Née Landreaux] Pajaud, a Blues singer born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She traveled widely with minstrel and circus shows in the 1910s, and made her first phonograph recordings in New York of blues songs in 1922. She recorded with the likes of Jelly Roll Morton and her half sister Edna Hicks was also a blues singer. She died in 1963 at the age of 67. |