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Gifted with a powerful voice and sophisticated musical artistry, she conducted her life by her own set of rules and had affairs with both men and women. Born in severe poverty, probably on April 15, 1894, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Smith became the undisputed favorite blues singer of ticket and record buyers alike throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
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.
19. Okt. 2021 · Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend was originally published (without the subtitle) 24 years ago in the United Kingdom as part of Outlines, a series of books that explored the ways in which “homosexuality has informed the life and creative work of the influential gay and lesbian artists, writers, singers, dancers, composers and actors of our time.”
Then, which featured the Bessie Smith postage stamp on its Summer 1995 cover). Appalachian purists say that Bessie Smith was a black entertainer of national renown and part of an African-American performance tradition that had little or nothing to do with the Appalachian region. (The same could be
US #2854. 1994 Bessie Smith. Part of the Legends of American Music series. Set features eight Jazz and Blues singers from the 20 th century. Category of Stamp: Commemorative. Set: Jazz and Blues Singers, from the Legends of American Music series. Value: 29¢, First-Class Mail rate. First Day of Issue: September 17, 1994.
6. Feb. 2022 · Sun 6 February 2022 12:00, UK. Bessie Smith was one of the most influential singers of all time. Hitting her creative zenith during the Jazz Age, she became known as the ‘Empress of the Blues’, which says it all about her status. The most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and ’30s, Smith helped to drag music into the future by ...
2. Apr. 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 ...
