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Charlie Pride was the first African American country singer who was on the charts professionally. But before him, the first African-American (or Negro, as they were then called) performer in Country Music was probably DeFord Bailey, a popular harmonica player who could be heard on the Grand Old Opry in the 1920s and 1930s, and performed with many famous country stars. He was not a singer, but many of the big country stars would not have had hits without him.

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This is impossible to determine, as there were many folk artists and artisans brought to the new world on slave ships. Joshua Johnston (1765-1830), Otto Reinhold Jacobi (1812-1901), Patrick Reason (1817-1856), William H. Simpson (1818-1872), and Robert Scott Duncanson (1821-1872) represent some of the names of the early trailblazers who were the unusual combination of black, American, and artist. A review of their work suggests that these vanguards did not focus on the issues surrounding their racial acceptance in society; but rather followed personal or business interests such as Duncanson's extensive mural work resulting from his classical education in Paris. Robert Scott Duncanson, considered by some art historians as the first black man to earn his living as an artist, was a painter of both Hudson River landscapes and floral still lifes. Joshua Johnston, “ the first American artist of African descent to create a sizeable body of work of high quality" according to Romare Bearden’s Six Black American Artists, was listed in a Baltimore directory from 1796 to 1824 as a portraitist. Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901) was a well-known landscape and genre painter from Providence, Rhode Island. Although he was the first Black American artist to win a national art prize, a first-place at the Philadelphia Exposition in 1876, he was denied admission into the hall to accept the award because of his race. Specializing in making bird’s-eye views of California and Nevada towns, Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918) was the first recognized Black American artist in the American West. Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), known for religious and genre paintings, was the first black artist to earn an international reputation. Although Thomas Eakins encouraged him while a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Tanner experienced much prejudice in Philadelphia, and chose to expatriate to Paris.

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THE FIRST black person to make music was also the first human to make music, because our species developed in Africa and invented music long before leaving Africa.

Our species - homo sapiens - began to evolve in Africa about 200.000 years ago. The first of us to leave Africa did it 50,000 years ago. Man should have invented music before then. Furthermore, the emigrated Africans kept their black skin in many thousands of years outside Africa. The first of homo sapiens who came to Europe were black, while the Neanderthals who already lived there were white. White skin color derives from a mutation about 15.000 to 20.000 years ago, so the people who moved north should get enough vitamin D supplements. All people on Earth today, except black people in Africa, have some genes from the Neanderthal man (according to geneticist Svante Pääbo and his team in Leipzig), so maybe the Neanderthal man helped black people to become white.....

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who was the first african american musican?

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Mamie Smith in 1920.

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