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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.
Classic female blues [48] Son House: 1902 1988 Mississippi Delta blues [49] Peg Leg Howell: 1888 1966 Georgia Country blues [50] Alberta Hunter: 1895 1984 Tennessee Classic female blues [51] Mississippi John Hurt: 1894* 1966 Mississippi Country blues [52] Jim Jackson: 1890* 1937* Mississippi Country blues [53] Papa Charlie Jackson: 1890* 1950 ...
This is a list of notable African-American singers that gives their year of birth and music genres with which ... (1950–2005): Delta blues, jazz, morna, flamenco ...
For these reasons and more, many Black female artists would later turn to British and European audiences to launch their careers outside of the glare of American racism. Famous Black Singers from ...
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]
Pages in category "African-American women singers" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Edith Wilson (née Goodall; September 2, 1896 – March 31, 1981) was an American blues singer, vaudeville performer, and actress from Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.An African-American who performed and recorded in the classic female blues style in the 1920s, Wilson worked in vaudeville and stage productions, first in Louisville and later throughout the U.S. and abroad.
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. Music critic Ernest Borneman noted that Bogan was one of "the big three of the blues", along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. [2]