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Opal Cooper

1889–1974

United States

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Opal D. Cooper (1889 – 1974) was an African American musician and performer. Though little remembered today, in the years immediately after World War I, Cooper "was a singer, pianist and actor who experienced marginal success in the United States and parts of Europe during the 1920s and 1930s."

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