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Bessie Smith war eine US-amerikanische Bluessängerin, vorwiegend in den 1920er Jahren aktiv, die mehr als 150 Schallplatten einspielte und als „Kaiserin des Blues“ galt.
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.
Vor 6 Tagen · Bessie Smith, American singer, one of the greatest blues vocalists. Known as the ‘Empress of the Blues,’ she was a bold, supremely confident artist who sang with breathtaking emotional intensity on such songs as ‘Down Hearted Blues,’ ‘Empty Bed Blues,’ and ‘Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out.’.
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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...
The song "Backwater Blues" is a blues and jazz standard written by Bessie Smith. Smith (on vocal with James P. Johnson on piano) recorded it as "Back-water Blues" on February 17, 1927, in New York City. Its musical composition entered the public domain on January 1, 2023.
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31. Jan. 2020 · Ihre majestätische Stimme trug ihr den Beinamen "Empress of the Blues" ein: Bessie Smith gilt als größte Bluessängerin der Musikgeschichte.
2. Apr. 2014 · Learn about the life and career of Bessie Smith, the \"Empress of the Blues,\" who sang with jazz legends like Louis Armstrong and recorded hits like \"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out.\" Find out how she died in a car accident and how she influenced future generations of singers.
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, with a screenplay by Rees, Christopher Cleveland and Bettina Gilois.
