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30. Apr. 2018 · Smith was one of the highest paid black entertainers of the 1920s, earning the nickname “Empress of the Blues.”. She was among the first African American singers to be recorded (starting in 1923), and her recordings helped to spark an interest in blues music that transformed the genre from a regional tradition to a national trend.
24. Apr. 2019 · April 24, 2019. Profiles In Jazz. Accurately billed as “The Empress of the Blues” during her prime years, Bessie Smith was not only the top female jazz and blues singer to record in the 1920s, but was one of the most powerful vocalists of all time. No other singer during 1923-24 was able to overcome both the primitive recording quality of ...
9. Feb. 2015 · The first claim alleged that the very recording contracts and copyright agreements between Bessie Smith and Columbia Records should be deemed invalid on the basis that they were unconscionable, stating that Columbia Records took advantage of Smith’s illiteracy and lack of business savvy, noting that Columbia Records paid Smith an average of $200 per recording with no royalties. Bessie Smith ...
Featuring Bessie Smith, Fletcher Henderson, and James P. Johnson. Produced at Long Island’s Gramercy Studio in late June of 1929, this all-Black musical short is the story of a no-account husband who cheats on his long-suffering wife, played by Bessie Smith in her only film appearance.
8. Aug. 2019 · What used to be the G.T. Thomas Afro-American Hospital, where Bessie Smith died after a car crash on just north of Clarksdale in 1937, is today a no-frills hotel called the Riverside.
Quien ahora es mundialmente conocida con el sobrenombre de “la Emperatriz del Blues” empezó, como tantos otros en la historia, actuando en la calle por algo de dinero. Nacida en 1894 en Chattanooga (Tennessee), Bessie Smith quedó huérfana a muy corta edad y se vio obligada a ganarse la vida por sí misma desde muy joven.
5. Jan. 2018 · In her music, Bessie Smith — known as the "Empress Of The Blues" — communicated the kind of outward urgency and inner stillness that often signals the telling of an absolute truth. Carl Van ...
