who was named the empress of the blues
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- Bessie Smith Facts. Bessie Smith (ca. 1894-1937) was called The Empress of the Blues.. Her magnificent voice, sense of the dramatic, clarity of diction (you never missed a word of what she sang) and incomparable time and phrasing set her apart from the competition and made her appeal as much to jazz lovers as to lovers of the blues.
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House of Blues House of Blues is a chain of live music concert halls and restaurants in major markets throughout the United States. House of Blues' first location, in Cambridge's Harvard Square, was opened in 1992 by Isaac Tigrett, co-founder of Hard Rock Cafe, and Dan Aykroyd, co-star of the 1980 film The Blues Brothers.
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Classic female blues The most popular of the classic blues singers was Tennessee-born Bessie Smith, who first recorded in 1923. Known as the “Empress of the Blues, she possessed a large voice with a “T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness if I Do” attitude. Smith (who was unrelated to Mamie Smith) had toured on the T.O.B.A. circuit since 1912, originally as a chorus girl; by 1918 she was appearing in her own revue in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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- His tombstone is a red granite, emblazoned simply Satchmo Louis Armstrong with a beautiful white trumpet figure laden on top. Buried with him is his last of four wives, Lucille Armstrong who died in 1983. Inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Long Island Hall of Fame in 2008.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Peacock Mrs. Elizabeth Peacock(born January 5, 1906) is the Lady of Arlington Grange and a beautiful society hostess. She constantly tries to live up to her reputation that she would rather forget. She is nicknamed Ma Bluebird because of the mysterious deaths of her husbands.
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Blind Lemon Jefferson Although Leadbelly was the senior bluesman of the two, it is generally recognized that Jefferson was the better guitarist. Leadbelly was so impressed with Blind Lemon Jefferson, in fact, that he would later record songs in tribute to Jefferson's ability, including the song, Blind Lemon's Blues..
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Bessie Smith Artist Biography by Scott Yanow. The first major blues and jazz singer on record and one of the most powerful of all time, Bessie Smith rightly earned the title of The Empress of the Blues..
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Jimmie Rodgers - Meridian Jimmie Rodgers-Meridian. Jimmie Rodgers (1897 – 1933) is widely known as the father of country music, but blues was a prominent element of his music.The influence of his famous blue yodels can be heard in the music of Mississippi blues artists including Howlin' Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, Tommy Johnson, and the Mississippi Sheiks.His many songs include the autobiographical T.B. Blues, which addressed the tuberculosis that eventually took his life.Jimmie Rodgers and The Blues Meridian native Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933) was the first major star of country music and introduced the blues to a far wider audience than any other artist of his time, black or white.he influence of his famous blue yodels can be heard in the music of Mississippi blues artists including Howlin' Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, Tommy Johnson, and the Mississippi Sheiks. His many songs include the autobiographical T.B. Blues, which addressed the tuberculosis that eventually took his life.
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In HBO's 'Bessie,' Queen Latifah Stars As Empress Of The Blues Queen Latifah — who plays the title role in the HBO movie Bessie, which premieres tonight — has been working for more than 20 years to bring Bessie Smith's life to the screen and finally pulled it together with writer-director Dee Rees. NPR's Arun Rath spoke with both of them.
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- Student response: Percent Value Student Response Answer Choices a. Can the Circle Be Unbroken b. Hound Dog 100.0% c. Sixty Minute Man Question 14 (2 points) This 1925 song was a big hit for this singer, also called ‘’The Empress of the Blues.’’ She recorded it with trumpet player Louis Armstrong.
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Bessie Smith Biography. Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer. Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the ... Read more. Go to Bio. Biography. Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer. Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and, along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on other jazz vocalists. Read more at Wikipedia.
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Singin' the Blues In the TV series Heat of the Night, the character of Luann Corbin was always convincingly well-played by actress Crystal R. Fox, but the episodes that featured her excellent singing voice were the highlights of her appearances; in particular, the episode Singin' the Blues (1993).
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Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86 embed. 1  Maya Angelou, whose landmark book of 1969, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” — a lyrical, unsparing account of her childhood in the Jim Crow South — was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide general readership, died on Wednesday at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C. She was 86.
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The Lady Chablis The Lady Chablis. Brenda Dale Knox (March 11, 1957 – September 8, 2016), known professionally as The Lady Chablis, was an American actress, author, and drag performer. Through exposure in the novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and its 1997 film adaptation she became one of the first drag performers to be accepted by a wider audience.
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Misty Copeland named ABT's first black female principal dancer Misty Copeland named ABT's first black female principal dancer. Misty Copeland, the African-American ballet dancer who rose from poverty and learned the art at the untypically late age of 13, was named Tuesday as the first female black principal dancer of the American Ballet Theater in its 75-year history.
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- In November 2006 Clark was the subject of a BBC Four documentary titled Petula Clark: Blue Lady and appeared with Michael Ball and Tony Hatch in a concert at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane broadcast by BBC Radio the following month.lark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II. During the 1950s she started recording in French and having international success in both French and English, with such songs as The Little Shoemaker, Baby Lover, With All My Heart and  Prends Mon Coeur . cœur
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- Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City on March 2 and April 22, 1959.
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Bessie Smith Biography Record executives realized they had a new market and the race record was born. These records were shipped only to the South and selected areas of the North where African American people congregated. Bessie Smith produced Down-Hearted Blues and Gulf Coast Blues in February 1923.
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W.C. Handyâthe âFather of the Bluesââdies W.C. Handy—the “Father of the Blues”—dies. “With all their differences, my forebears had one thing in common: if they had any musical talent, it remained buried.” So wrote William Christopher Handy in his autobiography in discussing the absence of music in his home life as a child.
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"Cadillac Records: The ""UNTRUE"" Story of Etta James" Of course we all saw Beyonce’s “role” in the movie Cadillac Records but unfortunately that role was not the factual life of Etta James. For those of you who’ve never read the the autobiography of Etta James, Rage To Survive, I strongly encourage you to check out this book.
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Ma Rainey Afterward, they were billed as the “Assassinators of the Blues” with Tolliver’s Circus and Musical Extravaganza. Separated from her husband in 1916, Rainey subsequently toured with her own band, Madam Gertrude Ma Rainey and Her Georgia Smart Sets, featuring a chorus line and a five piece band.
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Plum pudding model Plum pudding model. The plum pudding model of the atom. The current model of the sub-atomic structure involves a dense nucleus surrounded by a probabilistic cloud of electrons. The plum pudding model is one of several scientific models of the atom. First proposed by J. J. Thomson in 1904 soon after the discovery of the electron, but before the discovery of the atomic nucleus, the model represented an attempt to consolidate the known properties of atoms at the time: 1) electrons are negatively-charged particles and 2) atoms are neutrally-charged.
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Brenda Fassie Brenda Fassie, South Africa’s first black pop star, died on May 9. According to the post-mortem report, Fassie’s heart stopped after using cocaine.
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- Published: 23, March 2015. One of the most influential women of blues and jazz was Bessie Smith. Born Elizabeth Smith on April 15 around 1894, actual year is unknown (Britannica). Her father, William was a preacher and her mother, Laura was a homemaker.
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Lady Sings the Blues  (film) In a flashback to 1928, Billie is working as a housekeeper in a brothel where she is raped. She runs away to her mother, who sets up a job cleaning for another brothel in the Harlem section of New York. The brothel is run by an arrogant, selfish owner who pays Billie very little money.
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Washington, Dinah (Ruth Lee Jones), (1924-1963) At the age of 18, Washington joined Lionel Hampton’s band and a year later she also signed with Keynote Records, releasing her first hit “Evil Gal Blues” under the name Dinah Washington.ashington’s penetrating and heartfelt voice ensured her success and, having moved to Mercury Records in 1948, she enjoyed a string of hits of the R&B charts, including “Baby Get Lost” (No. 1, 1949) and “Trouble in Mind” (No. 4, 1952).