Edwin Pearce Christy (November 28, 1815 – May 21, 1862) was an American composer, singer, actor and stage producer. He is more commonly known as E. P....
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Christy's Minstrels, sometimes referred to as the Christy Minstrels, were a blackface group formed by Edwin Pearce Christy, a well-known ballad singer...
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song attributed to Edwin Pearce Christy, originally intended to be sung during a minstrel show. Drawing from an 1847 song by Christy entitled "Farewell...
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Minstrels, a blackface group formed by Philadelphia-born showman Edwin Pearce Christy in 1842 and known for introducing Stephen Foster's compositions....
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football player Edwin Pearce Christy (1815–1862), US musician and producer Elisa Christy (1917–2018), Mexican singer and dancer Eva Christy (1869–1954),...
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found in Christy's Plantation Melodies. No. 2, a songbook published under the authority of Edwin Pearce Christy in Philadelphia in 1853. Christy was the...
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thereafter, Edwin Pearce Christy founded Christy's Minstrels, combining the refined singing of the Ethiopian Serenaders (epitomized by the work of Christy's composer...
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Washington Square Ted Cotter Hollywood Cavalcade Himself Swanee River Edwin Pearce Christy 1945 Rhapsody in Blue Himself [citation needed] 1946 The Jolson Story...
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wholly inaccurate; there was no performance by Edwin Pearce Christy on the day Foster died. In reality, Christy died nearly two years before Foster; he committed...
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his career began as a star performer with his stepfather Edwin Pearce Christy's troupe Christy's Minstrels; in two and a half years with them he earned...
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