She was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and is reported to have studied at Selma University in Alabama before moving to New York around 1915. She worked in minstrel shows and on the TOBA vaudeville circuit, before making her first recordings for the Black Swan label in 1922. Among these were "My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll", of historic interest as the first secular recording to reference the phrase "rock and roll", which was black slang for sexual intercourse.

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