Bessie Smith
USA
Born: 15 April 1894
Died: 26 September 1937
Styles: Classic Female Blues, Country Blues, Piano Blues, Pre-War Blues, Pre-War Country Blues, Early Jazz, New Orleans/Classic Jazz, Vaudeville Blues
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The first major blues and jazz singer on record and one of the most powerful of all time, Bessie Smith rightly earned the title of "The Empress of the Blues." Even on her first records in 1923, her passionate voice overcame the primitive recording quality of the day and still communicates easily to today's listeners (which is not true of any other singer from that early period). At a time when the blues were in and most vocalists (particularly vaudevillians) were being dubbed "blues singers," Bessie Smith simply had no competition. Back in 1912...
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