Sippie Wallace, born Beulah Thomas, November 1, 1898, was a United States blues singer, songwriter, and pianist.

Wallace was born in Houston, Texas into a musical family; her siblings included George W. Thomas, Hershal Thomas, and Hociel Thomas. In her youth she sang and played organ in Baptist church.

In the 1910s her family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana.

In 1923 she moved to Chicago, Illinois and made her first recordings for Okeh Records. She was one of the popular blues singers of the 1920s.

In the 1930s she retired from most commercial performance, mostly just playing and singing in church in Detroit, Michigan. She made some more recordings in the 1940s, and returned to touring in the 1960s.

Sippie Wallace continued performing into her 80s. In her later years she sometimes had trouble walking on stage, but sang with undiminished power and style, to the delight of audiences.

Sippie Wallace was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1993. She passed November 1, 1986.

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