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Harry Pace, Insurance Executive and Music Publisher

Black Swan Reocrds, 1921
Black Swan Reocrds, 1921

#OTD Mar 2, 1921: Insurance executive and music publisher Harry Pace established Pace Phonograph Corporation on the Black Swan label. It is the first Black-owned and operated record company, recording jazz, blues, gospel and operatic arias.

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