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Biography
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Katie Crippen
Effective period / Period of releases: 1921
African-American entertainer and singer, also billed as Little Katie Crippen or Ella White.Crippen was born November 17, 1895 in Philadelphia, Pa., and died of cancer on November 25, 1929 in New York, after long illness.
Her recorded legacy consist of four titles recorded for Black Swan in 1921, backed by bands led by pianist Fletcher Henderson.