Lena Wilson

Lena Wilson ( * ca 1898 in Charlotte ( North Carolina); † ca 1939 in New York City ) was an American blues singer.

Life and work

Wilson was adopted and sang 1918-1920 with her brother Danny Wilson as a vaudeville performer in the tour program of the Theatre Owners Booking Association in the southern United States. 1921 were the siblings in Louisville (Kentucky) with Edith Goodall, who soon afterwards married Danny and appeared with them in the trio. Danny, who both acted as a pianist, she suggested that not only blues songs, but other songs to present.

Most of the shots Lena Wilson originated 1922-1924, also in 1930. You worked there with different musicians and bands, such as Nubian Five, Perry Bradford 's Jazz Phools, Conaway 's Rag Pickers, Fletcher Henderson, Johnny Dunn 's Jazz Hounds, Danny Wilson and Edith Wilson. They also took under his own name with an ensemble called The Jazz Hounds, where Gus Aiken (trumpet ), Garvin Bushell ( clarinet), Herb Flemming (trombone ), John Mitchell ( banjo) and Porter Grainger and Cliff Jackson ( piano ) played. Their important recordings include Memphis, Tennessee, Tain't Nobody's Biz -ness If I Do, Chiropractor Blues and Love Is not Blind No More.

Wilson also sang during the 1920s in several musical revues in Harlem. In the following decade, she married the violinist Shrimp Jones, and then appeared in New York City. She died in New York around 1939, probably of pneumonia.