Artist Info: Monette Moore

Monette Moore (May 19, 1902, Gainesville, Texas – October 21, 1962, Garden Grove, California) was an American jazz and vaudeville blues singer.

Moore was raised in Kansas City. She taught herself piano in her teens, and worked as a theater pianist in Kansas City in the early 1920s. In 1923–24 she recorded with the Paramount Records label in New York City and Chicago, and relocated to New York City. In the 1920s she also worked in Chicago, Dallas and Oklahoma City. [read more...]