$8.99
Sold by music on Tradebit
The world's largest download marketplace
3,251,083 satisfied buyers
The world's largest download marketplace
3,251,083 satisfied buyers
MP3 Sheba the Mississippi Queen - Butter On My Roll
13 MP3 Songs in this album (64:21) !
Related styles: BLUES: Blues Vocals, BLUES: Jazzy Blues
People who are interested in Billie Holiday Etta James should consider this download.
Details:
Sheba the Mississippi Queen
Sheba was born Martha Booker with twin sister Mary Booker in Sunflower Mississippi. Sheba learned to sing the blues while her sister fell into her father’s footsteps singing gospel music. Their father Leroy Booker a gospel singer that traveled all over the south was called the singing insurance man.
The cotton field and the church in the Delta, that’s where Sheba started singing. Sheba’s family was sharecroppers barely making it, when Sheba was 12 years old her mom left to go to Florida in search of opportunities and later returner to get Sheba and her brothers and sisters.
They all came to South Florida in a Migrants Worker Bus. The family started working in the tomatoes, beans fields, and lime groves in Homestead Florida, joining many other people that had left the Delta to start a new life. The work was very hard but singing helped them make through the day; often hands bleeding from the thorns on the lime trees and running from the snakes in fields was very painful.
Sheba formed a group that she named The Grove Girls, they would sing in all the fields and on the bus on their way to and from work. Years later her family moved from Homestead to Miami that when she met musician Freddie Nelson, she teamed up with Freddie and together they move to New York forming a group called The Swingers. Freddie and Sheba did their first recording joined by one of New York Big Bands; it’s in the big apple where Sheba had the opportunity to meet with Red Fox, Flip Wilson, Arthur Prysock, and Carmen McCray.
In New York Sheba was inroduced to the sultry sound of Billy Holiday and fell in love with her music, that why you can here the flavoring of Billy in some of her songs. The Swingers performed in ;lace such as Under the /stairs, Jimmuy Ryan''s Village Gate and The Library Club. After fifteen years of abuses treatment from Freddie both mental and physical, with pain in her heart Sheba had to move on.
Sheba returned to Miami Florida, and teamed up with Yosiah Israel who was a keyboard player, he immediately fell in love with her voice, and together they produced mumerous orignal songs, Sheba and Yohiah were jazzy performers and were able to be seen at clubs like Top Of The Home in Hollywood Florida, Emilio in "Davie Florida, where Sheba had a chance to present her Billy Holiday songs. One night Sheba remembers a fan giving her two hundred dollars to sing Good Morning Heartache.
After Leaving Mississippi Sheba did not sing the blues she was ashamed of coming from a state that was so hard on black people. in those days when you said you were from thr Delta, people would make fun of you and call you country. Yosiah convince Sheba about the blues, little did he know that he was taking her right back to her Mississippi roots. Once more she had to leave another man bercause of mental and physical abusers and pain in her heart.
Sheba found great enjoyment listen To and songing BB King,Kako Taylor, Jimmie Reed, Etta James,Patsy Cline,and all the great Delta singers (including Elvis).
Sheba started singing with Wild Rob Moore Blues Band. One night at blues club call the Poor House. the owner Bob wanted her to sing at the annual Ft. Lauderdale Blues Fest,
this is ehen Sheba met with Ken Minahan he liked her voice and took over putting a band behind he called The Rhythm Kings
Sheba and The Rhythm Kings went all over from the Florida Keys all the way back to Mississippi where she did a live radio performancer singig Billy Holiday''s famous song Strange Fruit. Shortly after the Miss Good and Plenty CD was produced, it recerives some airtime on DMX blues station. There has always been growth in pain for her after five successful years it was the end of Sheba and The Rhythm Kings. Sheba survived it picked up her tracks and startred doing a singles at partiers, clubs and hotels.
After the breakup with the Rhythm Kings she tried other bands, True Blue Band where she pickup some new songs that''s on he new CD. Sheba has her own band name the Soul Kings. Sheba has taken control of her life,music, and doing her own things, she is in charge, and it showred in her new CD Butter On My Roll.
Some fascinated fanonce told her you must sing and keep on singing so that people an see the living miracle of God comming out of you.
I give thanks to the men that gave me the blues.
SHEBA THE MISSISSIPPI QUEEN
File Data