Eliza Brown

For the New Zealand temperance and women's suffrage activist, see Eliza Ann Brown. For the settler in colonial Western Australia, see Eliza Brown (settler).

Eliza Brown (1903 – 1983) was an American classic female blues singer and recording artist,[1] who also went by the alias Ozie McPherson and after marriage as Ozie Ware.[2] She was active in the late 1920s, when she recorded several tracks for Columbia Records including "Get On Out of Here" and "Stop Laying That Stuff On Me".[2] Little is known about her outside of her recordings.[3] She married the entertainer Sonnie Ware.[4]

  1. ^ Stewart-Baxter, Derrick (1970). Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers. London: Studio Vista. p. 85. ISBN 9780812813210.
  2. ^ a b Dixon, Robert M. W.; Godrich, John (1982). Blues & Gospel Records, 1902-1943 (3rd rev. ed.). Essex: Storyville Publications. p. 114. ISBN 9780902391031.
  3. ^ Bourgeois, Anna Stong (1996). Blueswomen: Profiles of 37 Early Performers, with an Anthology of Lyrics, 1920-1945. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. p. 28. ISBN 9780899509631.
  4. ^ Bob L. Eagle, Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues: A Regional Experience. 2013, S. 507