Ma Rainey’s Death – Cause and Date

The blues singer Ma Rainey died at the age of 53. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

The Mother of the Blues who was among the first singers to infuse folk blues music into her performances. She recorded more than one hundred songs over the course of her career, including “See See Rider.”

Before her fame she and her husband William Rainey, a vaudeville performer known as Pa Rainey, traveled together in a song-and-dance act.

Quotes

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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don’t know how it got there.

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They hear it come out, but they don’t know how it got there. They don’t understand that’s life’s way of talking. You don’t sing to feel better. You sing ’cause that’s a way of understanding life.