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Lizzie Miles was born on Borbon Street and she was singing with the New Orleans Jazz bands of King Oliver, Kid Ory, and A.J. Piron while she was still a teenager. She worked as a song plugger for Clarence Williams' and A.J. Piron's publishing company and toured the southern vaudeville curcuit, worked in a circus, and with minstrel shows, before moving to Chicago in the early 1920s. In Chicago she performed with Elgars Creole Orchestra, Freddie Keppard, and King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. By 1922 Miles had relocated to New York where she began her recording career in 1922 and played clubs and caberets with The Sam Wooding Orchestra and with Piron's New Orleans Orchestra. In 1924 she toured Europe and then returned to New York where she spent most of the rest of the 1920s and 1930s performing in clubs around the city with numerous acts that included groups lead by Fats Waller and Paul Barbarin. In the late 1930s, Miles returned to New Orleans and left show business until the l950s when she resumed her career performing and recording with the Bob Scobey Band until she retired in 1959. Lizzie Miles was the half sister of Blues Singer Edna Hicks. Some of Lizzie Miles' records were released under the pseudonyms of Mandy Smith and Jane Howard.