SPIVEY, VICTORIA REGINA

SPIVEY, (QUEEN) VICTORIA REGINA. (15 October 1906 in Houston, Texas; 3 October 1976 in New York, New York). She came from a musical family; her father and brothers played in a local string band. She began playing piano as a child and early performed with local groups, including Daddy Filmore's blues-jazz band and L. C. Tolen's band. In the clubs she came into contact with Blind Lemon Jefferson . In 1926 she made her first recording, Black snake bluesBlack snake blues...