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Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
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Lovie Austin
American pianist
2
Viola McCoy
American blues singer
3
Bertha Idaho
American classic female blues singer
4
Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
5
Bessie Smith
American blues singer
6
Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
7
Frank Stokes
American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel
8
Katherine Henderson
American classic female blues singer
9
Billie Pierce
American jazz pianist and singer
10
Edmonia Henderson
African American classic female blues singer
11
Hot Lips Page
American jazz musician
12
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer
13
Sara Martin
American blues singer
14
Papa Charlie Jackson
American bluesman and songster
15
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
16
Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
17
Hannah Sylvester
African American blues singer
18
Clara Smith
American classic female blues singer
19
Jim Jackson
African American blues and hokum singer, songster and guitarist
20
Lottie Kimbrough
American country blues singer
21
Lena Wilson
American blues singer (1898-1939)
22
Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
23
Coot Grant
American classic female blues and vaudeville singer and songwriter
24
Ethel Waters
American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress
25
Eva Taylor
American singer and actress (1895-1977)
26
Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
27
Cleo Gibson
American blues singer
28
Ida May Mack
musical artist
29
Edith Wilson
American blues singer and vaudeville performer (1896-1981)
30
Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
31
Bessie Tucker
American classic female blues singer and songwriter
32
Martha Copeland
American classic female blues singer
33
W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
34
Madlyn Davis
American classic female blues singer
35
Valerie Wellington
American Chicago blues and electric blues singer and actress (1959-1993)
36
Hazel Meyers
American classic female blues and country blues singer
37
Marion Harris
American musician (1896-1944)
38
Mamie Smith
American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)
39
Edna Hicks
American blues singer and musician.
40
Bessie Brown
American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer
41
Thomas A. Dorsey
American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music
42
Daisy Martin
African American actress and blues singer
43
Dan Sane
American Memphis and country blues guitarist and songwriter
44
Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
45
Ida Goodson
American classic female blues and jazz singer and pianist
46
Alice Leslie Carter
United States American classic female blues singer
47
Viola Gertrude Wells
American singer
48
Linda Hopkins
African American actress and blues and gospel singer
49
Alfred Aloysous Bernard
American singer
50
Josie Miles
American singer
