Ella Sheppard, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ella Sheppard

Singer, pianist, composer, matriarch of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers

Date of Birth: 04-Feb-1851

Date of Death: 09-Jun-1914

Profession: musician

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Ella Sheppard (February 4, 1851 – June 9, 1914) was a soprano, pianist, composer, and arranger of Negro Spirituals.
She was the matriarch of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers of Nashville, Tennessee.
She also played the organ and the guitar.
Sheppard was a friend and confidante of African-American activists and orators Booker T.
Washington and Frederick Douglass.