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| | Handbook of Texas Online: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Beulah (Sippie, the Texas Nightingale) Wallace, celebrated blues singer, daughter of Fanny and George W. Thomas, Sr., deacon of Shiloh Baptist Church, was born in Houston on November 1, 1898. |
 | | One of thirteen children, she was nicknamed Sippie in grammar school because, she once said, "My teeth were so far apart I had to sip everything." A young Wallace began singing and playing the organ in the local Baptist church. |
 | | Wallace is said to have possessed "qualities of shading and inflection in her singing that marked the classic blues artist." Known as the last of the blues shouters and ranked among such blues greats as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Ida Cox and Alberta Hunter, Wallace died in Detroit on November 1, 1986. |
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