Wallace King was an African American minstrel performer from the 19th century.
He played with Callender's Georgia Minstrels, and in 1882 was second to only Billy Kersands in pay and popularity.
[5] His colour was very rarely mentioned in the British press and subsequently in newspapers in Australia and New Zealand.
By 1895 he was in Australia, where he spent six years as the ‘favourite tenor’ at the Tivoli Theatre in Sydney.
[6] He went to New Zealand in 1901 and in May was appearing in Christchurch where he was simply billed as ‘The World-famed Silver Tenor Vocalist of the Minstrel Stage’.