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Lucille Hegamin
Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
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Daisy Martin
Daisy Martin
African American actress and blues singer
2
Mamie Smith
Mamie Smith
American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)
3
Trixie Smith
Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
4
Edith Wilson
Edith Wilson
American blues singer and vaudeville performer (1896-1981)
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Esther Bigeou
Esther Bigeou
American vaudeville and blues singer
6
Ruby Smith
Ruby Smith
American classic female blues singer
7
June Carter Cash
June Carter Cash
American singer, songwriter and actress (1929-2003)
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Madlyn Davis
Madlyn Davis
American classic female blues singer
9
Big Maybelle
Big Maybelle
American R&B singer and pianist
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Clara Smith
Clara Smith
American classic female blues singer
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Lavinia Turner
Lavinia Turner
musical artist
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Victoria Spivey
Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
13
Hazel Meyers
Hazel Meyers
American classic female blues and country blues singer
14
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
15
Lucille Bogan
Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
16
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
American blues singer
17
Mattie Hite
Mattie Hite
African-American blues singer
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Kitty Brown
Kitty Brown
American classic female blues singer
19
Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
20
Ruth Brown
Ruth Brown
American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)
21
Martha Copeland
Martha Copeland
American classic female blues singer
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Big Mama Thornton
Big Mama Thornton
American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
23
Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson
American gospel singer
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Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan
American jazz singer
25
Maggie Jones
Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
26
Viola McCoy
Viola McCoy
American blues singer
27
Abbey Lincoln
Abbey Lincoln
American singer (1930-2010)
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Citizen Cope
Citizen Cope
American singer
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Josie Miles
Josie Miles
American singer
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Annette Hanshaw
Annette Hanshaw
American singer
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Ernie Hare
Ernie Hare
American radio personality
32
Maybelle Carter
Maybelle Carter
folk and country music guitarist
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Mary Stafford
Mary Stafford
American cabaret singer
34
Virginia Liston
Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
35
Maggie Bell
Maggie Bell
Scottish singer-songwriter
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Katie Crippen
Katie Crippen
African American entertainer and singer
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Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters
American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress
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Jessie Mae Hemphill
Jessie Mae Hemphill
American country blues guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist
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Floyd Smith
Floyd Smith
American jazz guitarist
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Porter Grainger
Porter Grainger
American musician
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Rosa Henderson
Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
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Alberta Hunter
Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
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Mildred Bailey
Mildred Bailey
American jazz singer
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Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald
American jazz singer
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Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro
American musician and songwriter
46
Teresa Brewer
Teresa Brewer
US pop singer
47
Marcia Ball
Marcia Ball
American blues singer and pianist
48
Chris Smither
Chris Smither
American singer-songwriter
49
W. C. Handy
W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
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Carol Woods
Carol Woods
American singer-actor
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Linda Hopkins
Linda Hopkins
African American actress and blues and gospel singer
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Helen Gross
Helen Gross
American classic female blues singer
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Lena Wilson
Lena Wilson
American blues singer (1898-1939)
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Original Dixieland Jass Band
Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
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Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson
American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi
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Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
American guitarist, session musician, recording artist
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Bessie Brown
Bessie Brown
American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer
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Memphis Slim
Memphis Slim
American recording artist; blues pianist, singer, and composer
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Helen Humes
Helen Humes
American jazz and blues singer
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Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
61
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
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Amina Claudine Myers
Amina Claudine Myers
American musician
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Sunnyland Slim
Sunnyland Slim
American blues pianist
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American gospel musician
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Ruthie Foster
Ruthie Foster
American singer
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Hociel Thomas
Hociel Thomas
American vaudeville and blues singer
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
American jazz singer
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Bertha Idaho
Bertha Idaho
American classic female blues singer
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Memphis Minnie
Memphis Minnie
American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
70
Sippie Wallace
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
71
Karen Dalton
Karen Dalton
American musician
72
Bettye LaVette
Bettye LaVette
American soul singer-songwriter
Alice Leslie Carter
United States American classic female blues singer

Alice Leslie Carter

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United States American classic female blues singer
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Alice Leslie Carter was an American classic female blues singer, active as a recording artist in the early 1920s. Her best-known tracks are "Decatur Street Blues" and "Aunt Hagar's Children Blues". She was a contemporary of the better-known recording artists Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Clara Smith, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace, and Bertha "Chippie" Hill. Little is known of her life outside music.

She is not to be confused with Alice Carter, another blues singer, who recorded four songs in 1923.