Eva Jessye
Eva Jessye (January 20, 1895 — February 21, 1992) was an African American who was the first black woman to receive international distinction as a professional choral conductor. She is notable as a choral conductor during the Harlem Renaissance, who created her own choral group featured widely in performance. Her professional influence extended for decades through her teaching as well. Her accomplishments in this field were historic for any woman. She collaborated in productions of groundbreaking works, directing her choir and working with Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein on Four Saints in Three Acts (1933), and serving as musical director with George Gershwin on his innovative opera Porgy and Bess (1935).
Early life and education
Eva Jessye was born January 20, 1895 in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was educated at Western University), a historically black university in Kansas, and Langston University in Oklahoma. She later studied privately with Will Marion Cook in New York.
In 1919 Jessye began work as the choir director at Morgan State College in Baltimore. She returned west for a time to teach at an AME Church school in Oklahoma. In 1926 she went back east to Baltimore, where she began to perform regularly with her group the "Eva Jessye Choir". She had first named them the "Original Dixie Jubilee Singers", but many groups began to appropriate the name Dixie Jubilee Singers, so she changed hers.
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by Jase
Wifey
by: JaseLil mama do it bad,
Everything she do I like that
She got it all I want it bad,
She got me hooked like that
And she a diva (diva)
If you see her (see her)
Don't cha know baby
I would never leave ya
I would do it all for you
Fall for you
And all them dudes threat her well but
She just can't seem to let them go
I'll write her this song
16 bars heart and my soul
And if I could do everything she want
I would do it for her
I would walk to the end of the world and back
Just to be with her
[Refrain:]
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The only one I need is you
And there is nothing that I wouldn't do
To make all your dreams come true
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And all them dudes be tripping like
Why you with him?
But they don't know that on the low
That I'm seeing right
And on this
My CD ain't drop yet.
I'm in the tropic?
That sunset I know you feel that
They get so hollywood
Running shit lie I would I so hollywood
No special effects; it's all me
Acting on the scene when we
Running on the streets
And my favourite colour happens to be green
Like your eyes & money in my jeans
And I see you walking low
I need you
Girl you should know
[Refrain:]
Be my Jase, be my boo
The only one I need is you
And there is nothing that I wouldn't do
To make all your dreams come true
Be my Jase, be my boo