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Katie Crippen

African American entertainer and singer

1

Lucille Hegamin

American singer and entertainer

2

Viola McCoy

American blues singer

3

Maggie Jones

American blues singer and pianist

4

Lena Wilson

American blues singer (1898-1939)

5

Rosa Henderson

American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer

6

Edith Wilson

American blues singer and vaudeville performer (1896-1981)

7

Victoria Spivey

American blues singer and songwriter

8

Monette Moore

American jazz and blues singer (1902-1962)

9

Trixie Smith

African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)

10

Mattie Hite

African-American blues singer

11

Marion Harris

American musician (1896-1944)

12

Edmonia Henderson

African American classic female blues singer

13

Mary Stafford

American cabaret singer

14

Hazel Meyers

American classic female blues and country blues singer

15

Coot Grant

American classic female blues and vaudeville singer and songwriter

16

Edna Hicks

American blues singer and musician.

17

Sara Martin

American blues singer

18

Fletcher Henderson

American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer

19

Big Joe Turner

American blues shouter

20

Ida Cox

African American singer and vaudeville performer

21

Esther Bigeou

American vaudeville and blues singer

22

Virginia Liston

American classic female blues and jazz singer

23

Josie Miles

American singer

24

Helen Humes

American jazz and blues singer

25

Big Miller

American blues singer (1922-1992)

26

Katherine Henderson

American classic female blues singer

27

Sippie Wallace

American blues and jazz singer

28

Lonnie Johnson

musician from the USA

29

Buster Bailey

American musician

30

Viola Gertrude Wells

American singer

31

Ethel Waters

American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress

32

Clara Smith

American classic female blues singer

33

Wesley Wilson

American blues, jazz, and vaudeville singer and songwriter (1893-1958)

34

Original Dixieland Jass Band

American jazz band

35

Daisy Martin

African American actress and blues singer

36

Lillian Goodner

African American blues singer

37

Charlie Green

American jazz trombonist

38

Bessie Brown

American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer

39

Eileen Farrell

singer

40

Linda Hopkins

African American actress and blues and gospel singer

41

J. C. Johnson

American musician

42

Bessie Smith

American blues singer

43

Joe Williams

American jazz singer

44

Cab Calloway

American jazz singer and bandleader (1907-1994)

45

Koko Taylor

American Chicago blues musician

46

Lucky Millinder

American rhythm and blues and swing bandleader

47

Mamie Smith

American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)

48

Big Maybelle

American R&B singer and pianist

49

Alberta Hunter

American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse

50

Red Nichols

American jazz musician

51

Count Basie

American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)

52

Louis Armstrong

American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer

53

J. C. Higginbotham

Jazz trombonist

54

Haywood Henry

American jazz baritone saxophonist

55

Benny Carter

American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)

56

Annette Hanshaw

American singer

57

John T. Smith

American guitarist (1890-1940)

58

Annisteen Allen

singer

59

Betty Roché

American blues singer

60

Bonnie Bramlett

American singer and occasional actress

61

Wynonie Harris

American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer

62

Margaret Whiting

American recording artist; singer

63

Big Joe Williams

American Delta blues guitarist, recording artist, singer and songwriter

64

Sarah Vaughan

American jazz singer

65

Russell Procope

American musician

66

Adelaide Hall

American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer

67

Elmer Chambers

American jazz trumpeter

68

Dinah Washington

American singer, songwriter, pianist

69

Lizzie Miles

African American blues singer

70

Lou Hooper

Canadian musician

71

Phoebe Snow

American singer, songwriter and guitarist

72

Three X Sisters

73

Alice Leslie Carter

United States American classic female blues singer

74

Ma Rainey

African-American blues singer

75

Renée Fleming

American opera soprano

76

Hociel Thomas

American vaudeville and blues singer