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Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
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Esther Bigeou
American vaudeville and blues singer
2
Viola McCoy
American blues singer
3
Josie Miles
American singer
4
Ozie Ware
A singer from the USA
5
Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
6
Edmonia Henderson
African American classic female blues singer
7
Katie Crippen
African American entertainer and singer
8
Sara Martin
American blues singer
9
Edith Wilson
American blues singer and vaudeville performer (1896-1981)
10
Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
11
Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
12
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
13
Lavinia Turner
musical artist
14
Mattie Hite
African-American blues singer
15
Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
16
Martha Copeland
American classic female blues singer
17
Marion Harris
American musician (1896-1944)
18
Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
19
Ivy Smith
American singer
20
Hannah Sylvester
African American blues singer
21
Mary Stafford
American cabaret singer
22
Lizzie Miles
African American blues singer
23
Cleo Gibson
American blues singer
24
Katherine Henderson
American classic female blues singer
25
Mamie Smith
American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)
26
Lena Wilson
American blues singer (1898-1939)
27
Jelly Roll Morton
American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
28
Coot Grant
American classic female blues and vaudeville singer and songwriter
29
Clara Smith
American classic female blues singer
30
L. Wolfe Gilbert
Composer, lyricist, author, publisher
31
Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
32
Bessie Brown
American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer
33
Lillian Goodner
African American blues singer
34
Memphis Minnie
American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
35
Helen Gross
American classic female blues singer
36
Harold Arlen
American composer of popular music (1905-1986)
37
Alice Leslie Carter
United States American classic female blues singer
38
Irene Scruggs
American Piedmont blues and country blues singer
39
Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
40
Thomas A. Dorsey
American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music
41
Tracy Nelson
American singer
42
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
43
Bonnie Bramlett
American singer and occasional actress
44
Lil Johnson
African American blues singer
45
Fiddlin' Doc Roberts
American Kentucky-style old-time fiddler
46
Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
47
Ethel Waters
American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress
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Ford Dabney
American conductor and songwriter
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Joseph E. Howard
American composer
