Manuel Romain 1870–1926
An American tenor who spent years as a featured singer with the minstrel companies — Primrose and Dockstader's among them — before moving into vaudeville in 1908. He recorded heavily for Edison across all three cylinder formats. By 1926 his health had failed to the point where recording for Edison was the only professional work he could still do; he died that December.
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