19 Facts About Lizzie Miles

Elizabeth Mary Landreaux, known by the stage name Lizzie Miles, was an Afro-Creole blues singer in the United States.

Lizzie Miles moved to New York and made her first phonograph recordings in 1922.

Lizzie Miles worked at Dashy's Inn Golf Club as a soloist.

Lizzie Miles toured Europe in 1924 and 1925 and then returned to New York and worked in clubs from 1926 to 1931.

Lizzie Miles recorded as leader of a trio with Oliver, and in a duo with Jelly Roll Morton.

Lizzie Miles suffered a serious illness and retired from the music industry in the 1930s, not before she recorded "My Man o' War", described by one music journalist as "a composition stuffed with rococo suggestiveness".

Lizzie Miles began working regularly again in 1935, performing with Paul Barbarin at the Strollers Club in New York.

Lizzie Miles sang with Fats Waller in 1938 and then worked in Chicago until she left music in 1942.

In 1950, Lizzie Miles lived in California where she sang with George Lewis in 1953 and 1954.

Lizzie Miles performed and spent time with Bob Scobey in Las Vegas, Nevada, from 1955 to 1957.

Lizzie Miles sang with Joe Darensbourg in Chicago in 1958 and 1959.

Lizzie Miles returned to New Orleans, where she appeared with Freddie Kohlman and Paul Barbarin.

Lizzie Miles recorded with several Dixieland and traditional jazz bands, appeared at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1958, and made regular radio broadcasts before retiring in 1959.

Lizzie Miles began working closely with the Sisters of the Holy Family, an order of Black religious in the city, declaring that she had decided "to live the life of a nun".

Lizzie Miles died of a heart attack, in March 1963, at the sisters' Lafon Nursing Home in New Orleans and was buried in the city at Saint Louis Cemetery No 3.

Lizzie Miles married August Pajaud in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 9,1912.

Lizzie Miles married John C Miles, from whom she took her stage name, in Norfolk, Virginia in 1914.

Lizzie Miles was a bandleader working for the Jones brothers.

Lizzie Miles died of Spanish flu in Shreveport, Louisiana on October 19,1918 while on tour and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.