What is Mamie Smith?
[[File:MamieSmith.png|right|thumb|Mamie Smith]] '''Mamie Smith''' (born '''Mamie Robinson'''; May 26, 1883 – September 16, 1946) was an [[Americans|American]] [[vaudeville]] [[singer]], [[dancer]] and pianist. She appeared in several [[movie]]s. She performed many [[music]]al genres, including blues and jazz. She became the first [[African American]] singer to make vocal blues recordings in the early 1920s. Her movies included ''Jailhouse Blues'' in 1929 and ''Paradise in Harlem'' ten years after that. Smith was born in [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]]. She died at age sixty-three in 1946. {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Mamie}} [[Category:American movie actors]] [[Category:Singers from Cincinnati]] [[Category:Actors from Cincinnati]] [[Category:1883 births]] [[Category:1946 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century American actors]] [[Category:20th-century American singers]] [[Category:American blues singers]] [[Category:American dancers]] [[Category:American pianists]] [[Category:Blues musicians]] [[Category:Jazz music]] [[Category:Vaudeville performers]] {{US-actor-stub}}