Olmstead Luca
Olmstead Luca (1826 – 1869) was a Liberian pianist[1] and composer. He composed the music for the Liberian national anthem, "All Hail, Liberia, Hail!". He came from a mixed-race family that had immigrated to Liberia from the United States.[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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