Madelyn Sheppard

Madelyn Sheppard
Sheppard in c. 1915
Sheppard in c. 1915
Background information
OriginSelma, Alabama, U.S.
Died1990
Occupation(s)Pianist, singer, composer
Instrument(s)Piano, vocal
Madelyn Sheppard, John Barnes Wells, Helen Smith Woodruff, Annelu Burns (c. 1915)

Madelyn Sheppard (died in 1990) was an American pianist, singer, and composer from Selma, Alabama. She frequently collaborated with lyricist Annelu Burns on spirituals and blues songs, including creating music for the theater and film industries.[1][2][3] She composed the score for the 1922 Broadway musical, Just Because, which "may well have been the first full-length Broadway musical authored entirely by women", according to the Library of Congress.[4]

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