Biography
Black Boy Shine
Real name: Harold Holiday
Effective period / Period of releases: 1937 - 1994
Texas blues singer and pianist, who recorded for Vocalion in Fort Worth, Texas (1935), San Antonio, Texas (1936) and Dallas, Texas (1937)."Robert Shaw [i.e., Robert Shaw (5)] remembered him as a smooth underworld figure and rated him the best of the Texas pianists." (The Penguin guide to blues recordings (2006), p. 45)