Bertha "Chippie" Hill was a dancer and vaudeville singer. At the age of thirteen she and her family moved to New York City where Hill began to pursue a life in show business. In 1919 she was working as a dancer with Ethel Waters in New York and toured with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels. In the early 1920s she toured the TOBA circuit with her own song and dance act. In the mid-1920s she settled in Chicago and worked at various venues in the city appearing on the same bill with King Oliver's Jazz Band. Hill is best remembered today for the ten recordings she made for Okeh in 1925 and 1926 that featured Louis Armstrong on cornet. Hill left show business for a few years when the Depression was in full swing, but by the mid-1930s she was performing again with Jimmie Noone, and Lovie Austin and her Blues Serenaders. After World War II she worked with James P. Johnson, Kid Ory and Art Hodes. She died in 1950 after being injured in a hit and run automobile accident.