Alice Leslie Carter was an American classic female blues singer, active as a recording artist in the early 1920s.
[1][2] Carter recorded eleven sides in 1921, with musical accompaniment led by James P. Johnson on piano.
[1] Her output included the first vocalised recording of the W. C. Handy and Tim Brymn song "Aunt Hagar's Children Blues.
"[3][4] On January 20, 1922, Carter competed in a blues-singing contest with Lucille Hegamin, Daisy Martin, and Trixie Smith (the eventual winner) at the Manhattan Casino in New York City.
[5] In the printed programme she was billed as "The International Blues Star", from which the musicologist David Evans inferred that she may have toured in Europe with an American band after World War I.