THE HARDEST WORKING WOMAN IN SHOW BUSINESS! - Matilda Sissieretta Jones "The Black Patti" (1869-193
"The announcement of the coming concert of the Black Patti Company Thursday at the Grand shows a programme of musical possibilities. The Black Patti has the reputation of being the greatest singer of her race the world has ever seen. Her voice is a soprano, of wide range, particularly clear in its upper register, while her notes are as deep as resonant as her higher ones are bell like. Black Patti bears the distinction of having sung to more people in one week than any other, and her record of 75,000 who flocked to hear her at Madison Square Garden in New York City stands unequalled in the history of singing." The Atlantic Constitution, Jan. 20, 1895.
James E. Brunson
