Chippie Hill

vocals · 1905–1950

Bertha “Chippie” Hill, a vaudeville dancer and singer based in Chicago in the mid-1920s, is known for her 1925–1926 OKeh recordings with Louis Armstrong. After the war she worked with James P. Johnson, Kid Ory and Art Hodes; she died in 1950 after being hit by a car.

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Styles

• Classic blues (women singers)
• Blues, spirituals, work songs

Landmark tracks

• Trouble in Mind (Chippie Hill) (1926)
• Georgia Man (1926)

Sources

• Source

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