Lil Green

Lil Green (December 22 1919 — April 14 1954 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fnfixqqgldse~T1 All Music Guide biography - accessed January 2008] ] ) was an American blues singer and songwriter.

Life and career

She was born Lillian Green in Mississippi but after the early deaths of her parents she went to Chicago, Illinois, where she began performing in her teens and where she would make all of her recordings. [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Lil+Green Discogs mini biography - accessed January 2008] ]

Lil Green was noted for superb timing and a distinctively sinuous voice. In the 1930s she and Big Bill Broonzy had a night club act together. Her two biggest hits were, firstly, her own composition "Romance in the Dark" (1940), which was later covered by many artists but Billie Holiday recorded a different song with the same name. Then came Green's own version of Kansas Joe McCoy's minor key 12-bar blues classic, "Why Don't You Do Right?" (1941), which was later covered by Peggy Lee. As well as performing in Chicago clubs, she toured with Tiny Bradshaw and other bands, but never really broke away from the black theatre circuit. [http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/Lil-Green.html Oldies.com biography] ]

Although she signed with Atlantic Records in 1951, she was already in poor health. She died in Chicago in 1954 of pneumonia, at the age of 34, and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Gary, Indiana.

ee also

*List of Classic female blues singers
*List of blues musicians
*List of people who died in their thirties

References

External links

* [http://www.oafb.net/once29.html Lil Green fansite]
* [http://www.wirz.de/music/greenlil.htm Illustrated Lil Green discography]