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Billie Pierce
Billie Pierce
American jazz pianist and singer
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Bessie Jones
Bessie Jones
American folk musician and gospel singer
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Ida Cox
Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American gospel musician
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Victoria Spivey
Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
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Sippie Wallace
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
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The Roberta Martin Singers
The Roberta Martin Singers
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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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Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
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Bishop Dready Manning
Bishop Dready Manning
American blues musician
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Etta Baker
Etta Baker
American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer
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Lovie Austin
Lovie Austin
American pianist
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The Holmes Brothers
The Holmes Brothers
American musical trio
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Bertha Idaho
Bertha Idaho
American classic female blues singer
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Sammy Price
Sammy Price
American pianist
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Big Mama Thornton
Big Mama Thornton
American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
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Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson
American gospel singer
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Liz McComb
Liz McComb
American musician
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Lizz Wright
Lizz Wright
American singer
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Ida May Mack
Ida May Mack
musical artist
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Hociel Thomas
Hociel Thomas
American vaudeville and blues singer
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Marcia Ball
Marcia Ball
American blues singer and pianist
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Bessie Tucker
Bessie Tucker
American classic female blues singer and songwriter
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Memphis Jug Band
Memphis Jug Band
band
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Roberta Martin
Roberta Martin
American musician
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Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw
American blues and boogie-woogie pianist
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The Davis Sisters
The Davis Sisters
American gospel group, founded in 1945
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Willie Mae Ford Smith
Willie Mae Ford Smith
American singer
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Clara Ward
Clara Ward
American gospel artist; singer, music arranger, songwriter
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Inez Catalon
Inez Catalon
American Creole singer
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Etta James
Etta James
American recording artist; singer
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Roseanna Vitro
Roseanna Vitro
Jazz singer
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Elizabeth Cotten
Elizabeth Cotten
American blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter
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Janice Scroggins
Janice Scroggins
American musician, jazz pianist and instructor
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Ray Bryant
Ray Bryant
American pianist
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Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
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Viola Gertrude Wells
Viola Gertrude Wells
American singer
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Regina Carter
Regina Carter
American musician
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Michael Doucet
Michael Doucet
American musician
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Norah Jones
Norah Jones
American singer, songwriter and pianist
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Lil Green
Lil Green
American blues singer and songwriter
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Bess Lomax Hawes
Bess Lomax Hawes
American folk musician and folklorist
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Clifton Chenier
Clifton Chenier
American accordion player and Zydeco musician
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Horace Silver
Horace Silver
American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)
Ida Goodson
American classic female blues and jazz singer and pianist

Ida Goodson

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American classic female blues and jazz singer and pianist
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Ida Goodson (November 23, 1909 – January 5, 2000) was an American classic female blues and jazz singer and pianist.