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Big Bill Broonzy
Big Bill Broonzy
American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
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Memphis Minnie
Memphis Minnie
American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
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Lil Green
Lil Green
American blues singer and songwriter
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Merline Johnson
Merline Johnson
African American blues singer
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Mozelle Alderson
Mozelle Alderson
musical artist
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Charlie Spand
Charlie Spand
American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer
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Lil Johnson
Lil Johnson
African American blues singer
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Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
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Joshua Altheimer
Joshua Altheimer
pianist
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Ethel Finnie
Ethel Finnie
American classic female blues singer
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Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
American bluesman and songster
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Ida Cox
Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
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Mildred Bailey
Mildred Bailey
American jazz singer
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Champion Jack Dupree
Champion Jack Dupree
American blues pianist
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"Big Boy" Teddy Edwards
"Big Boy" Teddy Edwards
American blues musician
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Lovie Austin
Lovie Austin
American pianist
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Lucille Bogan
Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
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Bertha "Chippie" Hill
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer
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Tampa Red
Tampa Red
American Chicago blues musician
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
American jazz singer
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Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
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Jimmie Gordon
Jimmie Gordon
American musician
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Irene Scruggs
Irene Scruggs
American Piedmont blues and country blues singer
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Blind John Davis
Blind John Davis
American musician
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Thomas A. Dorsey
Thomas A. Dorsey
American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music
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Louise Johnson
Louise Johnson
Blues singer and pianist
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Rosetta Howard
Rosetta Howard
American blues singer
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Bumble Bee Slim
Bumble Bee Slim
American Piedmont blues musician
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Virginia Liston
Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
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Monette Moore
Monette Moore
American jazz and blues singer (1902-1962)
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Doctor Clayton
Doctor Clayton
American blues musician
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Buddy Moss
Buddy Moss
American East Coast blues guitarist
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Sippie Wallace
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
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Memphis Slim
Memphis Slim
American recording artist; blues pianist, singer, and composer
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Rosa Henderson
Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
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Bernice Edwards
Bernice Edwards
American musician and singer
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Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell
Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist
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Washboard Sam
Washboard Sam
American blues singer and musician
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Lizzie Miles
Lizzie Miles
African American blues singer
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Adelaide Hall
Adelaide Hall
American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer
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Alberta Hunter
Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
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Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
American blues singer
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Connee Boswell
Connee Boswell
American musician (1907-1976)
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Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
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Ozie Ware
Ozie Ware
A singer from the USA
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Jazz Gillum
Jazz Gillum
American blues harmonica player
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Hattie Hart
Hattie Hart
American Memphis blues singer and songwriter
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Mamie Smith
Mamie Smith
American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)
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Viola McCoy
Viola McCoy
American blues singer
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James P. Johnson
James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
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John T. Smith
John T. Smith
American guitarist (1890-1940)
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Wynonie Harris
Wynonie Harris
American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer
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Kansas Joe McCoy
Kansas Joe McCoy
American Delta blues musician and songwriter
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J. B. Lenoir
J. B. Lenoir
African American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter
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Victoria Spivey
Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
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LaVern Baker
LaVern Baker
American rhythm and blues singer (1929-1997)
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Edith Wilson
Edith Wilson
American blues singer and vaudeville performer (1896-1981)
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Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters
American blues singer and guitarist
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Arnett Nelson
Arnett Nelson
American jazz and blues musician
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Little Buddy Doyle
Little Buddy Doyle
American Memphis blues musician
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Leroy Carr
Leroy Carr
American blues singer, songwriter and pianist
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Three X Sisters
Three X Sisters
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Ivie Anderson
Ivie Anderson
American jazz singer
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Bertha Idaho
Bertha Idaho
American classic female blues singer
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Eddie Noack
Eddie Noack
American musician
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Peetie Wheatstraw
Peetie Wheatstraw
American country blues musician
Georgia White
African American blues singer

Georgia White

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Georgia White (9 March 1903 – c.1980) was an American blues singer, most prolific in the 1930s and 1940s.

Little is known of her early life, but it has been suggested that she was born in Sandersville, Georgia. By the late 1920s she was singing in clubs in Chicago. She made her first recording, "When You're Smiling, the Whole World Smiles With You," with Jimmie Noone's orchestra in 1930. She returned to the studio in 1935, and over the next six years recorded over 100 tracks for Decca Records, usually accompanied by the pianist Richard M. Jones and also, in the late 1930s, by the guitarist Lonnie Johnson.

She also recorded under the name Georgia Lawson. Her tracks included "I'll Keep Sitting on It," "Take Me for a Buggy Ride," "Mama Knows What Papa Wants When Papa's Feeling Blue," and "Hot Nuts." Her best-known song was "You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now" (1935).

White formed an all-female band in the 1940s. She also performed with Bumble Bee Slim and Gassy Slaps. She joined Big Bill Broonzy's Laughing Trio in 1949 as pianist. "She was very easy to get along with," said Broonzy, "real friendly." She was a club singer in the 1950s, finally performing in 1959 in Chicago. She then resumed performing on weekends at the Blue Pub, a bar on Irving Park Road near the Kennedy Expressway, where she quickly won a loyal following. She sang many of her famous songs, including "Maybe I'm Wrong Again," a ballad from an early Bing Crosby movie.

One of her songs, "Alley Boogie" (recorded in 1937), was used as the theme music for the British romantic comedy drama series, Love Soup.