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| 1894 births | |
| smith, clara | |
| 1935 deaths | |
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Clara Smith (c. 1894 - 2 February , 1935 ) was a popular Blues Singer . Clara Smith was born in Spartanburg County, South Carolina . In her youth she worked on African American theater circuits and tent shows. By the late 1910s she was appearing as a headliner at the Lyric Theater in New Orleans and on the T. O. B. A. circuit. In 1923 she settled in New York City , appearing at Cabaret s and Speakeasies there; that same year she made the first of her commercially successful series of Gramophone Record ings for Columbia Records , for whom she would continue recording through 1932 . In 1933 she moved to Detroit, Michigan and worked at theaters there until her hospitalization in early 1935 for Heart Disease , of which she died. |
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