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Over the years, Black singers have used their voices to tell powerful stories, break racial barriers and transform lives. June may have been Black Music Month, but our reverence for the Black ...
Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues.
You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact, […]
Dinah Washington (/ ˈ d aɪ n ə /; born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist, one of the most popular black female recording artists of the 1950s. [1]
Vanessa Lynn Williams [1] (born March 18, 1963) is an American singer, actress, model, producer, and dancer. She gained recognition as the first Black woman to win the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984. She would later resign her title amid a media controversy surrounding nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine.
Few female singers over the last 20 years or so have had Rihanna’s unprecedented success and crossover appeal. Born in Barbados, this global icon has had a sizable impact on the African-American ...
This is a list of notable African-American singers that gives their ... (1927–2022), singerknown as the black Marilyn ... Kilo Kish: Hip-hop, art pop; Eartha ...
Joyce Bryant (October 14, 1927 – November 20, 2022) was an American singer, dancer, and civil rights activist who achieved fame in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a theater and nightclub performer.