Lucille Hegamin

Lucille Hegamin ( born November 29, 1894 as Lucille Nelson in Macon, Georgia, † March 1, 1970 in New York City ) was an American blues singer. It was 1920, the second African-American woman after Mamie Smith, who made Blue recordings.

At the age of 15 years was Lucille Nelson with minstrel shows in the southern United States on the go. It became known as "the Georgia Peach" ( Georgia Peach ). In 1914 she settled in Chicago, where she worked with Tony Jackson and Jelly Roll Morton and the pianist Bill Hegamin married. 1918, the couple moved Hegamin to Los Angeles a year later to New York. Bill Hegamin led the backing of his wife, the " Blue Flame Syncopators ". In August 1920 Lucille Hegamin took the title The Jazz Me Blues and " Everybody's Blues" for Arto Records on; these recordings sold well. In 1921 she played, one also with the Blue Flame Syncopators the Arkansas Blues and I'll Be Good But I'll Be Lonesome, one of the most popular records of the year. In the same year she toured in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. This was followed in the years to more recordings, partly under the pseudonym The Cameo Girl; with He May Be Your Man, But He Comes to See Me Sometimes they landed in 1922 another hit. In the same year she sang continue in the New York production of Shuffle Along.

From 1926 Hegamin occurred in several revues; In 1928 she took ( accompanied by J. Russel Robinson) Always Be Careful Mom and Reckless Men on. In 1929, she had a radio show in New York. Around 1934, she retired from the music business and worked as a nurse. Only in 1961 and 1962 she recorded again. Lucille Hegamin died in 1970 in New York. She is buried in Brooklyn.