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Brought blues to public attention in the 1920sBessie Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bessie Smith (July, 1892 or April, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was the most popular
and successful female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, ...
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Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith earned the title of “Empress of the Blues” by virtue of her forceful
vocal delivery and command of the genre. Her singing displayed a soulfully ...
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Bessie Smith
In no other way than living the kind of violent, promiscuous, hard-drinking street
life she sang about, could Bessie Smith have inspired in her audiences ...
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PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Bessie ...
Bessie Smith began her professional career in 1912 by singing in the ... NPR Audio
Feature, NPR's Louis Armstrong Centennial Radio Project: Bessie Smith ...
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Blues Online© Bessie Smith
Known as the Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Her date of birth is uncertain and is variously given as 1894-6, 1898, ...
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Remembering Bessie Smith
September 26th is the sixty-fourth anniversary of the tragic death of famous
blues singer, Bessie Smith. The eighth child of a poor black family in ...
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Bessie Smith
At the time of Bessie Smith’s birth in Chattanooga, Tennesee, blacks were so
little thought of that no record was made; only the date she gave on her ...
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Bessie Smith — FactMonster.com
Smith, Bessie, 1894–1937, American singer, b. Chattanooga, Tenn. About 1910 Smith
became the protégée of Gertrude (Ma) Rainey, one of the earliest blues ...
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Amazon.com: Bessie Smith: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1: Music ...
Amazon.com: Bessie Smith: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1: Music: Bessie Smith
by Bessie Smith.
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Bessie Smith — Infoplease.com
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