[Sissieretta
Jones: The Greatest Singer of Her Race 1868-1933;
Maureen Donelly Lee; University of South Carolina Press (2012)]
John
Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com
brought this book to our attention:
The
Richmond Voice
By Rick
Massimo
"Born Matilda Sissieretta Joyner in Portsmouth, in
Virginia's Eastern Shore, Sissieretta Jones became one of the
greatest singers ever to come out of Rhode Island and one of the
state's biggest musical mysteries. And a new book by a Rhode Island
native tries to give Jones the credit she deserves.
“Sissieretta
Jones: The Greatest Singer of Her Race 1868-1933,” by Maureen
Donelly Lee, traces the story of the opera, light opera and pop
singer who moved to Providence's Congdon Street as a child.
“She
eventually sang for four presidents and the British royal family,
toured the country several times and traveled to South America,
Australia, India, Europe and the West Indies and earned the nickname
“Black Patti,” after the grand Italian diva Adelina Patti.
Later, Jones toured with her own variety show, The Black Patti
Troubadours, before returning to Providence to care for her mother
and family, dying poor at age 65. Jones is buried in an unmarked
grave in Rhode Island's Grace Church Cemetery.”
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