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Amanda Aldridge Age, Songs, Singing

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Amanda Aldridge was born on March 10, 1866. She was 89 at the time of her demise. She had died a day to her 90th birthday.

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Amanda Aldridge Songs

Amanda published 30 songs during her lifetime. Some of them include An Assyrian Love Song,”, “Azalea”, “Blue Days of June,” “The Bride,” “The Fickle Songster,” “Little Brown Messenger,” “Little Missie Cakewalk,” “Little Rose in My Hair,” “Two Little Southern Songs. 1. Kentucky Love song 2. June in Kentucky”.

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Amanda Aldridge Singing

Amanda worked as a concert singer, and later as a voice teacher, following a throat condition.

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She published about thirty songs between 1907 and 1925 in various styles.

She groomed students such as Roland Hayes, Lawrence Benjamin Brown, Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson, who later turned out to be notable musicians.

Amanda made her TV debut with the show Music For You, where Muriel Smith sang Montague Ring’s “Little Southern Love Song”.

In 2020, Stephen Bourne wrote a feature titled “At home with Amanda Ira Aldridge”, in one of the editions of ‘The Historian’.

Bourne also wrote an article for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, in honour of the late singer.


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