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2 unusual facts about Victoria Spivey


Toni Price

Luiese later began to study the recordings of women blues singers such as Sippie Wallace and Victoria Spivey, from whose music Raitt herself had learned.

Victoria Spivey

In 1962, Spivey and jazz historian Len Kunstadt launched Spivey Records, a low-budget label dedicated to blues and related music.


Jazz – A History of the New York Scene

Jazz – A History of the New York Scene is a book by Len Kunstadt (founder, with blues great Victoria Spivey, of the Spivey Records label) and Sam Charters documenting the 20th century jazz scene in New York City.

Martha Copeland

Copeland's birth date is unknown, although Paul Oliver in his record sleeve notes to The Story of The Blues, Vol. 2, commented that she was in her forties when Victoria Spivey (born 1906) was in her teens.

Spivey Records

Spivey Records was a specialist blues record label, founded by blues singer Victoria Spivey and jazz historian Len Kunstadt in 1961.


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