biography
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Lloyd, Marie
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originally Matilda Alice Victoria Wood
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| female
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| lived:
| (1870–1922)
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| biography:
| Music-hall singer and entertainer, born in London, UK. She made her first appearance at the Royal Eagle Music Hall (later The Grecian) in 1885. Her first great success was with a song called ‘The Boy I Love Sits Up in the Gallery’, and she became one of the most popular music-hall performers of all time, appearing in music halls in America, South Africa, and Australia. Among her most famous songs was ‘My Old Man Said Follow the Van’. |
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