Old Corn Meal

Biography

Old Corn Meal, or Signor Cormeali (died 1842), was an African-American who became famous as a street vendor in New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1830s for singing and dancing while he sold his wares. He is one of the earliest known African Americans to have had a documented influence on the development of blackface minstrelsy specifically and American popular music in general. Old Corn Meal was known for walking through New Orleans singing and dancing while he led his horse and cart and sold corn meal.

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