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Los Angeles, California, U.S. Genres. Classic female blues, dirty blues. Occupation (s) Singer, songwriter. Years active. 1923–1935. Lucille Bogan (née Anderson; April 1, 1897 – August 10, 1948) [1] was an American classic female blues singer and songwriter, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson.
All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6. Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8. Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.
Website. www.leemorse.com. Musical artist. Signature. Lena Corinne "Lee" Morse (née Taylor; November 30, 1897 – December 16, 1954) was an American jazz and blues singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress. Morse's greatest popularity was in the 1920s and early 1930s as a torch singer, although her career began around 1917 and ...
Black Swan, Paramount, Gennett, OKeh, Victor, Columbia, Decca, Bluebird, Bluesville. Alberta Hunter (April 1, 1895 – October 17, 1984) was an American jazz and blues singer and songwriter from the early 1920s to the late 1950s. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] After twenty years of working as a nurse, Hunter resumed her singing career in 1977.
Smith demanded that Waters not compete in singing blues opposite her. Waters conceded and sang ballads and popular songs. Around 1919, Waters moved to Harlem and became a performer in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Her first Harlem job was at Edmond's Cellar, a club with a black patronage that specialized in popular ballads.
Years active. 2006–present. Labels. Harmonia Mundi. Dot Time Records. Website. www.catherinerussell.net. Catherine Russell (born 1956) [1] is an American jazz and blues singer. She is best known for her 2016 album Harlem on My Mind.
Singer. Years active. 1899–1939. Labels. Paramount. Gertrude " Ma " Rainey (née Pridgett; April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) [1][2][3] was an American blues singer and influential early-blues recording artist. [4] Dubbed the "Mother of the Blues", she bridged earlier vaudeville and the authentic expression of southern blues, influencing a ...
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 ...