Miles was born in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, in a dark skinned Francophone Creole ("Creole of Color") family. She traveled widely with minstrel and circus shows in the 1910s, and made her first phonograph recordings in New York of blues songs in 1922 – although Miles did not like to be referred to as a 'blues singer', since she sang a wide repertory of music. In the mid 1920s she spent time performing in Paris before returning to the United States. She suffered a serious illness and retired from the music industry in the 1930s.

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