Sippie Wallace
Sippie Wallace ( born November 1, 1898 in Houston, Texas; † 1 November 1986), actually Beulah Thomas, was an American blues singer and pianist.
Sippie Wallace was born into a musical family in; her brothers were George W. Thomas, pianist, bandleader and composer, and Hersal Thomas, her niece was Hociel Thomas, the daughter of George. In his youth Wallace sang in church and played the organ. Later she appeared in tent shows.
In 1915 she moved to New Orleans and married. In 1923 she moved to Chicago, where she made her first recordings as sippie Wallace, the Texan Nightingale ("The Texas Nightingale "). In the 1920s she was one of the most popular blues singers. Between 1923 and 1927 she recorded more than 40 tracks, mostly written by herself and her brothers. She has performed with such notable musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Clarence Williams and King Oliver.
In the 1930s, she retired from the music business and only appeared in churches in Detroit. In the 1940s, she made new recordings. In 1966, they brought in the wake of the blues revival out the album sippie Wallace Sings the Blues and went on tour again. Bonnie Raitt, then a student, was so impressed by the music that she visited Wallace; The two became friends and took along the 1981 album sippie on, which was nominated for a Grammy in 1983 and in 1984 won a Handy Award.
Sippie Wallace took until the 1980s on into it. It was inter alia in Germany known for her collaboration with the boogie woogie pianist Axel Zwingenberger. Zwingenberger their dedicated his composition " Blues for sippie Wallace ".
She died, she was accepted into the " Michigan Women's Hall of Fame" 1986. 1993 2003 into the Blues Hall of Fame.
Discography (selection)
- (With C. Williams ) Caldonia Blues Okeh 1924
- Special Delivery Blues, Okeh 1926
- The Flood Blues, Okeh 1927
- I'm a Mighty Tight Woman, Victor, 1929
- Bedroom Blues, Mercury, 1945.
- (With LB Montgomery and R. Sykes ) sippie Wallace Sings the Blues, Storyville, 1966
- Sippie, Atlantic, 1982
- Axel Zwingenberger & The Friends of Boogie Woogie Vol 1: sippie Wallace Vagabond, 1983
- Axel Zwingenberger & The Friends of Boogie Woogie Vol 3: An Evening with sippie Wallace Vagabond, 1986
- Complete Recorded Works, Vol 1 (1923-1925) Document Records 1995
- Complete Recorded Works, Vol 2 (1925-1945) Document Records 1995