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Linda Hopkins
African American actress and blues and gospel singer
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Panama Francis
American musician
2
Ernestine Anderson
American jazz and blues singer
3
Major Holley
American jazz upright bassist
4
Al Grey
American jazz musician
5
Joe Williams
American jazz singer
6
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
7
Helen Humes
American jazz and blues singer
8
Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
9
Martha Reeves
American singer and politician
10
Willie Mae Ford Smith
American singer
11
George Duvivier
American musician
12
Budd Johnson
American musician
13
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
14
Randy Weston
American jazz pianist
15
W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
16
Mavis Staples
American singer
17
Mickey Baker
American jazz and rock guitarist
18
Ethel Waters
American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress
19
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
20
Margie Evans
American blues singer and songwriter
21
Ray Bryant
American pianist
22
Robben Ford
American blues, jazz and rock guitarist
23
Ruth Brown
American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)
24
Mahalia Jackson
American gospel singer
25
Randy Brecker
American flugelhorn and trumpet player (1945-)
26
Thomas A. Dorsey
American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music
27
Barbara Dane
American singer
28
Melba Moore
American singer, actress
29
Floyd Smith
American jazz guitarist
30
Diana Ross
American vocalist, music artist and actress
31
Salome Bey
American-born Canadian singer-songwriter, composer, and actress
32
Phyllis Hyman
American rhythm-and-blues singer (1949–1995)
33
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
34
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American gospel musician
35
Milt Jackson
American musician
36
Lou Rawls
American record producer
37
Cissy Houston
American singer
38
Louie Bellson
American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator
39
Barbara Cook
American actress and singer (1927-2017)
40
The 5th Dimension
American popular music vocal group
41
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
42
Lonnie Smith
American jazz musician
43
Cassandra Wilson
American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi
44
Gregory Porter
American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actor
45
Marlena Shaw
American singer
46
Jo Ann Kelly
English blues singer and guitarist
47
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
48
Jennifer Holliday
American actress and singer
49
Melvin Sparks
American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist
50
Lady Tambourine
American gospel musician from Louisiana
51
Patti LaBelle
American singer-songwriter and actress
52
Sammy Price
American pianist
53
Big Maybelle
American R&B singer and pianist
54
Woody Herman
American recording artist, clarinetist, band leader
55
The Barrett Sisters
56
Eva Cassidy
American singer (1963-1996)
57
Gerald Wilson
American trumpetist (1918-2014)
58
Oliver Jones
Canadian musician
59
Chaka Khan
American singer-songwriter
60
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
61
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
62
Drink Small
African American soul blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
63
Clarence Williams
American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher
64
Larry Carlton
American musician
65
Lou Marini
American saxophonist, arranger and composer
66
Buddy Tate
American musician
67
Lady Bianca
American singer
68
Lightnin' Hopkins
American country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
