Background
De Sousa was the daughter of a Chicago police detective, John De Sousa (born 1856 died 1941), and his wife, Carrie (1861—1910).
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She had a younger sibling, Marvin De Sousa (1891—1921). She came to fame in 1898 as the singer of "Dear Midnight of Love", a ballad by Bathhouse John Coughlin. In 1913, De Sousa declared bankruptcy.
De Sousa retired in 1918, following a theatrical production in Australia, married a local doctor, and eventually moved to Shanghai.
In 1943, following two periods as a prisoner of war in internment camps in China, she returned to the United States on the Gripsholm and took a job in Chicago as a scrubwoman in the public-school system. She died in Chicago charity ward, of malnutrition, at age 66.
