Brown, Cleo

LC control no.	n 97877659
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Brown, Cleo *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Brown, Cleopatra Brown, C. Patra (Cleo Patra)
Associated country	United States
Birth date	19081208
Death date	19950415
Place of birth	Meridian (Miss.)
Place of death	Denver (Colo.)
Affiliation	WABC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.) Decca Records (Firm) Capitol Records, Inc. Capitol Records, Inc. General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists
Profession or occupation	Pianists Jazz singers Nurses
Special note	Composer. Data contributed by the Dance Heritage Coalition for the New York Public Library Dance Collection.
Found in	NYPL Dict. Cat. of the Dance Coll., 1974- Decca presents Drummer boy, 1941: label (Cleo Brown) New Grove dict. jazz (Brown, Cleo(patra); b. Dec. 8, 1909, Meridian, MS; pianist and singer) Biog. encyc. jazz, 1999 (Brown, Cleo (Cleopatra); b. Dec. 8, 1909, Meridian, MS; d. Apr. 15, 1995, Denver; piano, vocals) Her The legendary Cleo Brown [SR] p1996: label (Cleo Brown) insert (Cleo Brown; also sings under the name of C. Patra Brown; piano, vocals) African American National Biography, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Brown, Cleo; Cleo Patra Brown; Cleopatra; pianist, jazz singer; born 08 December 1907 in Meridian, Mississippi, United States; worked in South Side Chicago's Three Deuces Club, leading her own group in that club and in other places in Chicago and New York (1920s-1950s); broadcasted her own show on WABC in New York; recorded a version of "Pinetop's Boogie-woogie" for Decca records (1935) and with Decca All Star Revue; recorded for the California-based Hot Shot label and then for Capitol Records (1949); became a Seventh-day Adventist, stopped performing in public, worked as a nurse (1950s); surfaced in Denver, Colorado, where she played and taught piano under the names of C. Patra Brown and Cleopatra (1973); played and sang church music on McPartland's Peabody Prize radio show, Piano Jazz (1987); National Endowment for the Arts awarded her an NEA Jazz Masters fellowship (1987); Audiophile Records released Living in the Afterglow, a set of mostly religious songs that she performed with McPartland (1996); died 15 April 1995 in Denver, Colorado, United States)