Blues singer and actress Mae Mercer was found dead in her Northridge home Oct. 29. She was 76 and had been in ill health. Mae Mercer, a deep-voiced blues singer who spent much of the 1960s performing ...

Mae Mercer (June 12, 1932 – October 29, 2008) was an American blues singer and actress. She was born in the Temperance Hall community of Edgecombe County. Mercer lived in North Carolina through age 15 ...