Bessie Smith (1894-1937)
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/131974
- Name (English)
- Bessie Smith
- Short name
- Bessie Smith
- Year of birth
- 1894
- Year of death
- 1937
- Short Description
- "Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an 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 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and was a major influence on fellow blues singers, as well as jazz vocalists." - (en.wikipedia.org 04.09.2020)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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