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Okeh. Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her ...
Son House Mississippi John Hurt, 1964 Blind Lemon Jefferson Lonnie Johnson, 1941 Lead Belly Robert Jr. Lockwood, 1982 Sara Martin and Sylvester Weaver Mississippi Fred McDowell, 1972 Jay McShann in Edinburgh, c.1995 Memphis Minnie, 1930 Buddy Moss in Georgia prison camp, 1941 Ma Rainey Jimmy Rushing, 1946 Bessie Smith, 1936 Mamie Smith Henry Townsend, 1983 Ethel Waters, 1943 Curley Weaver Big ...
Bo Diddley was born in McComb, Mississippi, [nb 1] as Ellas Otha Bates (also stated as Otha Ellas Bates or Elias Otha Bates). [16] He was the only child of Ethel Wilson, a sharecropper's teenaged daughter, and Eugene Bates, [17] whom he never knew. Wilson was only sixteen, and being unable to support a family, she gave her cousin, Gussie ...
Genres. Blues, vaudeville. Occupation. Singer. Mamie Smith (née Robinson; May 26, 1891 [1] – August or September 16, 1946) was an American singer. As a vaudeville singer, she performed in multiple styles, including jazz and blues. In 1920, she entered blues history as the first African-American artist to make vocal blues recordings.
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians. Although his recording career spanned only seven months, he is recognized as a ...
Gary Lee Clark Jr.[1] (born February 15, 1984) is an American guitarist and singer who fuses blues, rock and soul music with elements of hip hop. [2] In 2011, Clark signed with Warner Bros Records and released The Bright Lights EP. [3] It was followed by the albums Blak and Blu (2012) and The Story of Sonny Boy Slim (2015).
The Famous Flames were an American rhythm and blues, soul vocal group [1] founded in Toccoa, Georgia, in 1953 by Bobby Byrd. James Brown first began his career as a member of the Famous Flames, emerging as the lead singer by the time of their first appearance in a professional recording, " Please, Please, Please ", in 1956.
Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, developed in African-American communities since the 1870s. [ 1 ] It was eventually extended from piano to piano duo and trio, guitar, big band, country and western music, and gospel. While standard blues traditionally expresses a variety of emotions, boogie ...