About Katharine Handy Lewis
KATHARINE H. LEWIS, SINGER, THE DAUGHTER OF W.C. HANDY Katharine Handy Lewis, an early blues singer who was the first to sing the songs set down by her father, W.C. Handy - ''the Father of the Blues'' - died last Thursday at her home in the Bronx after a long illness. She was 80 years old. Her last public appearance, at Carnegie Hall in March 1981, recreated the historic concert of April 27, 1928, the first evening of black music presented in the bastion of white music.
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