Olmstead Luca
"All Hail, Liberia, Hail!" (instrumental)
Olmstead Luca's music for "All Hail, Liberia, Hail!" performed by the United States Navy Band | |
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Olmstead Luca (1826-1869) was a pianist[1] and composer. He composed the music for the Liberian national anthem, "All Hail, Liberia, Hail!". He came from a bi-racial family that had immigrated to Liberia from the US South.[2]
Web sources
- ↑ Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment By Langston Hughes, Milton Meltzer
- ↑ Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf, Liberia, Dodd, Mead, 1906, p. 395.
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