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Vesta Tilley
English music hall performer and male impersonator
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Vesta Victoria
English comedian (1873-1951)
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Bessie Bonehill
English vaudeville performer
3
Nelly Power
British singer
4
Hetty King
Male impersonator
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Marie Lloyd
English singer, comedian and actress (1870–1922)
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Letty Lind
British actor and dancer
7
Cindy Walker
American songwriter, country music singer and dancer
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Bessie Bellwood
British entertainer
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Ella Retford
10
Victoria Monks
British Musical Hall singer
11
Ella Fitzgerald
American jazz singer
12
Peggy Lee
American recording artist; singer, songwriter, composer and actress (1920-2002)
13
Adelaide Hall
American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer
14
Yma Sumac
Peruvian-American soprano (1922-2008)
15
The McGuire Sisters
American singing trio
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Lily Morris
Music hall performer
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Lottie Collins
English singer and dancer
18
Gladys Bentley
American blues singer
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Ruth Brown
American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)
20
May Henderson
21
Marie Studholme
British actress
22
Nina Simone
American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist
23
Gracie Fields
British actress, singer and comedian (1898–1979)
24
Gladys Knight
American singer
25
Ella Eyre
British singer-songwriter
26
Petula Clark
British actress and singer
27
Gordon Jenkins
American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s
28
Ella Mai
English singer and songwriter
29
Dinah Shore
American singer and actress
30
Brenda Lee
American singer and recording artist
31
Vera Lynn
British singer (1917-2020)
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Shirley Bassey
Welsh singer
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Pearl Bailey
American singer
