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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.
Sandra L. Hall (born September 5, 1951) [3] is an American blues and soul blues singer and songwriter. She has been billed as Atlanta's "Empress of the Blues" [1] Hall is an Honorary Member of the Atlanta Blues Society. [4] To date she has released five albums, including three on Ichiban Records. [5]
They were also particularly prominent in African-American culture in the post-Civil War era, perhaps as a means of conferring status that had been negated by slavery, [2] and as a result entered early jazz and blues music, including figures such as Duke Ellington and Count Basie. [3]
Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s. An amalgam of traditional folk blues and urban theater music, the style is also known as vaudeville blues . Classic blues were performed by female singers accompanied by pianists or small jazz ensembles and were the first blues to be recorded.
The former Blues Clues star got his start on Nickelodeon's 1996 hit show at 22 years old. The program gained immediate success and reached No. 1 shortly after airing, much to Steve's surprise.
Bessie is a 2015 HBO TV film about the American blues singer Bessie Smith, and focuses on her transformation as a struggling young singer into "The Empress of the Blues".The film is directed by Dee Rees, [1] with a screenplay by Rees, Christopher Cleveland and Bettina Gilois.
"Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl" is a dirty blues song first recorded in 1931 by Bessie Smith and released by Columbia Records. It was written by Clarence Williams , J. Tim Brymn , and Dally Small. Owing to its sexually suggestive lyrics, it has been rated as one of the best double entendre songs of all time.
Dinah Sings Bessie Smith is the ninth studio album by blues, R&B and jazz singer Dinah Washington released on the Emarcy label, and reissued by Verve Records in 1999 as The Bessie Smith Songbook. The album arrangements are headed by Robare Edmondson and Ernie Wilkins , and the songs are associated with American blues singer Bessie Smith .