Career
Vance was known as a "coon singer", singing popular negro dialect songs of the day. She was a handsome woman, slightly over 6' tall and so could project over a 26 piece orchestra when she sang on the stage. She shared the bill with the leading headliners of the day and her impish face appears on dozens of sheet music covers from 1897 - 1914. Her picture appeared in Vanity Fair at one point and in 1910 she starred in a short lived but lavish Broadway musical called A Skylark. She played at least three extended engagements in London, the most successful being a 26 week appearance at the London Palace in 1909.
Her records exhibit a rare, radiant and very droll wit. She recorded for Edison Records in 1905 (two selections) and from 1906-1909 for Victor. Her most popular song was "Mariar" co-written by her husband and she recorded three versions of it.
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