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After the success of Mamie Smith's pioneering 1920 recording of " Crazy Blues ", record labels realized there was a demand for recordings of race music.

The classic female blues era had begun, and would extend through the 1920s.

From 1923 through to 1929, Cox made numerous recordings for Paramount Records, and headlined touring companies, sometimes billed as the " Sepia Mae West ", continuing into the 1930s.

During the 1920s, she also managed Ida Cox and Her Raisin ' Cain Company, her own vaudeville troupe.

At some point in her career, she played alongside Ibrahim Khalil, a Native American and one of the several jazz musicians of that era who belonged from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.