(bron: wikipedia)Marion Harris (born Mary Ellen Harrison; March 25, 1897 – April 23, 1944) was an American popular singer who was most successful in the late 1910s and the 1920s. She was the first widely-known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs.[Ward, Elijah (2005). Escaping the Delta. .]
She was born Mary Ellen Harrison on March 25, 1897 in Vanderburgh County, Indiana. Her parents, James P. Harrison (in the family stove manufacturing business) and Gertrude Kappler Sturtevant... meer
