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Biography
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Cleo Henry
Real name: Cleota Mae Davis (née Henry)
Mother of Miles Davis. The trumpeter credited her for the tune Boplicity because he wanted it in a different music publishing house than the one he was signed with. The composition was in fact co-written by him and Gil Evans.Born about 1900 in Arkansas, USA.