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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 ...
Sep 23, 2024 · Bessie Smith (born April 15, 1894?, Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.—died September 26, 1937, Clarksdale, Mississippi) was an American singer and one of the greatest blues vocalists. Smith grew up in poverty and obscurity. She may have made a first public appearance at the age of eight or nine at the Ivory Theatre in her hometown.
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- Bessie Smith was one of the greatest blues vocalists ever. She made 160 recordings in all, in many of which she was accompanied by some of the grea...
- Known in her lifetime as the “Empress of the Blues,” Smith was a bold, supremely confident artist who often disdained the use of a microphone and w...
- About 1913 Smith toured with Ma Rainey, one of the first of the great blues singers, and afterward traveled through the South singing in tent shows...
Apr 2, 2014 · Death. On September 26, 1937, Smith was en route to a show in Memphis, Tennessee with her companion of many years, Richard Morgan, when he sideswiped a truck and lost control of their car. Smith ...
Jul 27, 2022 · By 1937, music listener tastes changed and Smith's style of blues fell out in favor for jazz. In the midst of a comeback, Smith sadly died in a car wreck near Clarksdale, Mississippi, which itself sounds like the stuff of a blues song. To this day, many myths persist surrounding Bessie Smith's death and the car accident that killed her (via ...
Aug 5, 2019 · In that first hit record, "Downhearted Blues," you can still hear what won the hearts of her audiences. A lament about the problems associated with love relationships, Smith sings about "being ...
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Nov 13, 2009 · Legendary blues singer Bessie Smith is buried near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 4, 1937. Some 7,000 mourners attended her funeral. Smith had been killed a few days before when the old ...
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Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1894 or 1895. Bessie had six siblings. Her family was extremely poor. Her father was a Baptist minister. Both of her parents died when she was young. Bessie and her brother Andrew made money for the family working as street performers. Bessie sang and Andrew played the guitar.
