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Ma Rainey

Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001

b. Gertrude Melissa Nix Pridgett, 26 April 1886, Columbus, Georgia, USA, d. 22 December 1939, Georgia

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