Virginia Liston

Biography Little is known about her childhood. It is thought that she was born around 1890 in Louisiana, although U.S. census records suggest that she may have been born in Mississippi. By the time she was ten years old, she and her family were living in New Orleans. In about 1912, she was performing as a blues singer at the Segal Theater in Philadelphia. By 1925 they were divorced.

In 1927, Liston made her final recording session, singing "Cushion Foot Stomp" and "P.D.Q. Blues" with the Clarence Williams Washboard Band. Sexual innuendo appears in songs such as "Rolls Royce Papa", written by Liston and recorded in 1926, in which she sang of a man with a "bent piston rod". Another song was titled "You Can Dip Your Bread in My Gravy, but You Can't Have None of My Chops".

In 1929, Liston remarried and announced her retirement from show business. She moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and worked for a church. She died in St. Louis in June 1932.