As per our current Database, Ma Rainey has been died on Dec 22, 1939 (age 53).
When Ma Rainey die, Ma Rainey was 53 years old.
| Popular As | Ma Rainey |
| Occupation | Blues Singer |
| Age | 53 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | April 26, 1886 (Columbus, GA) |
| Birthday | April 26 |
| Town/City | Columbus, GA |
| Nationality | GA |
Ma Rainey’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Ma Rainey was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
The Mother of the Blues who was among the first Singers to infuse folk blues music into her performances. She recorded more than one hundred songs over the course of her career, including "See See Rider."
Beginning her singing career at the Springer Opera House at the turn of the twentieth century, she and her husband toured around the South performing in tent shows and cabarets.
Her works were distinguished for their simplicity and lack of adornment; she essentially took the songs of hardship and struggle of African Americans and retold them on the stage.
Before her fame she and her husband william Rainey, a vaudeville performer known as Pa Rainey, traveled together in a song-and-dance act.
She became the musical inspiration for the famed Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes and folklorist author Sterling Brown.
