Rosa Henderson (November 24, 1896[1] – April 6, 1968)[2] was an American jazz and classic female blues singer and vaudeville entertainer of the Harlem Renaissance era.
[1] She married Douglas "Slim" Henderson in 1918 and began traveling with his Mason-Henderson show.
Her career as a musical comedian started during the early 1920s, after she moved to New York, where she performed on Broadway.
During that time she recorded over one hundred songs, sometimes using pseudonyms such as Sally Ritz, Flora Dale, Sarah Johnson, Josephine Thomas, Gladys White, and Mamie Harris.
Although there was a marked decline in the number of her recordings after 1926,[1] which was largely due to the death of her husband, Slim, in 1928,[6] she continued performing until 1932, when she took a job in a New York department store.