Billed as "The Girl with the Million Dollar Smile", she was one of the classic female blues singers popular in the 1920s.
Several members of her extended family were musicians; the drummer Paul Barbarin was her cousin.
[2] In 1913 she began touring in vaudeville with the performer and playwright Irvin C. Miller; they later married.
[2] The blues writer Chris Smith said that Bigeou was "a singer at the pop end of African-American entertainment" and that she "seems to have retired, aged only 35, to settle in New Orleans, where reports indicate that she died circa 1936".
[4] She actually died on November 15, 1934, at Charity Hospital in New Orleans of pulmonary congestion accompanied by marked emaciation and dehydration, as listed on her death certificate.