ABOUT DAN EMMETT
Best known for composing songs like Dixie. He founded the first blackface minstrel troupe.
He was a drummer in a circus. He formed the Virginia Minstrels with Billy Whitlock, Dick Pelham, and Frank Bower in 1843.
His music was beloved by President Abraham Lincoln , who counted Dixie among the greatest songs ever written.
He married Mary Louise Bird in 1879.
He was portrayed by Bing Crosby in the biographical film Dixie from 1943.
