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Big Time Sarah

LC control no.n 95007519
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Personal name headingBig Time Sarah
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Variant(s)Streeter, Sarah, 1953-2015
See alsoCorporate body: BTS Express (Musical group)
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedChicago (Ill.)
Birth date1953-01-31
Death date2015-06-13
Place of birthColdwater (Tate County, Miss.)
Place of deathChicago (Ill.)
Field of activityBlues (Music)
Profession or occupationBlues musicians
Singers
Found inBig time Sarah and the BTS Express, p1993.
She got a thing goin' on, 1998: label (Big Time Sarah) insert (b. as Sarah Streeter in Coldwater, MS, 1953; Chicago blues singer & leader of the BTS Express)
Oxford reference, July 15, 2020: Encyclopedia of popular music, 4th edition (Big Time Sarah; born Sarah Streeter, January 31, 1953, Coldwater, Mississippi; a blues belter in the style of Big Maybelle and Big Mama Thornton; moved with her family to Chicago at age 7; toured with Sunnyland Slim and Erwin Helfer; in 1989 she formed her own band, the BTS Express)
Wikipedia, July 15, 2020 (Big Time Sarah; born Sarah Streeter, January 31, 1953, Coldwater, Mississippi; raised in Chicago; died June 13, 2015, in the Chicago area; American blues singer)