October 3, 1976(1976-10-03) (aged 69) New York City
Genres
Blues
Occupation(s)
Musician, singer, songwriter
Instrument(s)
Vocals, piano
Labels
Okeh
RCA Victor
Vocalion
Decca
Prestige Bluesville
Spivey
Musical artist
Victoria Regina Spivey (October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976),[1][2] sometimes known as Queen Victoria,[3] was an American blues singer, songwriter, and record company founder. During a recording career that spanned 40 years, from 1926 to the mid-1960s, she worked with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Clarence Williams, Luis Russell, Lonnie Johnson, and Bob Dylan.[4] She also performed in vaudeville and clubs, sometimes with her sister Addie "Sweet Peas" (or "Sweet Pease") Spivey (August 22, 1910 – 1943),[5] also known as the Za Zu Girl. Among her compositions are "Black Snake Blues" (1926), "Dope Head Blues" (1927), and "Organ Grinder Blues" (1928). In 1961, she co-founded Spivey Records with one of her husbands, Len Kunstadt.
^"Victoria Spivey Papers". Emory Libraries. June 9, 2006. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
^"MC 057: Guide to the Victoria Spivey Collection, 1925–1940, 1961–1976, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University". Scc.rutgers.edu. October 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
^Gates, Henry Louis, Cary D. Wintz, and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. 2009. Harlem Renaissance Lives: from the African American National Biography. United Kingdom, Oxford University Press. p. 469. ISBN 0195387953
^Skelly, Richard. "Victoria Spivey: Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
^Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 2346. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
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