Jules Bledsoe

Singer, Musical Artist

1898 – 1943

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Who was Jules Bledsoe?

Julius Lorenzo Cobb Bledsoe was a once renowned, but now semi-forgotten baritone, and the first African-American artist to gain regular employment on Broadway, subsequent to Bert Williams, William Grant Still, Ford Dabney and others.

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Born
1898
Waco
Ethnicity
  • African American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Bishop College
  • Columbia University
Died
Jul 14, 1943

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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