Sara Martin
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Sara Martin (June 18, 1884 – May 24, 1955) was an American blues singer, in her time one of the most popular of the classic blues singers.
She was born in Louisville, Kentucky and was singing on the African-American vaudeville circuit by 1915. She began a very successful recording career in 1922, and through the 1920s toured and recorded with such performers as Fats Waller and Clarence Williams. On stage she was noted for an especially dramatic performing style. She was among the most-recorded of the classic blues singers, and although her records have been criticized as uneven in quality and frequently dull, her recording of Death Sting Me Blues with King Oliver's band is considered outstanding.<ref>Stewart-Baxter, 1970, p.80</ref>
After 1932, she worked outside the field of music, running a nursing home in Louisville. She died of a stroke in 1955.
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- Harris, Sheldon (1994). Blues Who's Who (Revised Ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80155-8
- Stewart-Baxter, Derrick (1970). Ma Rainey and the classic blues singers. London: Studio Vista. SBN 289.79825.6
