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Fannie May Goosby
Fannie May Goosby
American singer
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Bertha "Chippie" Hill
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer
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Bertha Idaho
Bertha Idaho
American classic female blues singer
3
Lovie Austin
Lovie Austin
American pianist
4
Ida May Mack
Ida May Mack
musical artist
5
Martha Copeland
Martha Copeland
American classic female blues singer
6
Sippie Wallace
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
7
Laura Smith
Laura Smith
American classic female blues and country blues singer
8
Bernice Edwards
Bernice Edwards
American musician and singer
9
Mozelle Alderson
Mozelle Alderson
musical artist
10
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
American blues singer
11
Trixie Smith
Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
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Lucille Bogan
Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
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Mamie Smith
Mamie Smith
American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)
14
Ozie Ware
Ozie Ware
A singer from the USA
15
Virginia Liston
Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
16
Bessie Tucker
Bessie Tucker
American classic female blues singer and songwriter
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Viola McCoy
Viola McCoy
American blues singer
18
Lavinia Turner
Lavinia Turner
musical artist
19
Clara Smith
Clara Smith
American classic female blues singer
20
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
21
Esther Bigeou
Esther Bigeou
American vaudeville and blues singer
22
Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
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Edmonia Henderson
Edmonia Henderson
African American classic female blues singer
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Eva Taylor
Eva Taylor
American singer and actress (1895-1977)
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Ida Cox
Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
26
Lucille Hegamin
Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
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Kitty White
Kitty White
American singer
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Ruby Smith
Ruby Smith
American classic female blues singer
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Mississippi John Hurt
Mississippi John Hurt
American country blues singer and guitarist
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Sara Martin
Sara Martin
American blues singer
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Helen Gross
Helen Gross
American classic female blues singer
32
Lizzie Miles
Lizzie Miles
African American blues singer
33
Alfred Aloysous Bernard
Alfred Aloysous Bernard
American singer
34
Bessie Jones
Bessie Jones
American folk musician and gospel singer
35
Bessie Brown
Bessie Brown
American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer
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Charlie Spand
Charlie Spand
American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer
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Coot Grant
Coot Grant
American classic female blues and vaudeville singer and songwriter
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Victoria Spivey
Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
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Porter Grainger
Porter Grainger
American musician
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Cleo Gibson
Cleo Gibson
American blues singer
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Rosa Henderson
Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
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Lottie Kimbrough
Lottie Kimbrough
American country blues singer
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Original Dixieland Jass Band
Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
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Mildred Bailey
Mildred Bailey
American jazz singer
45
Katherine Henderson
Katherine Henderson
American classic female blues singer
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W. C. Handy
W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
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Linda Hopkins
Linda Hopkins
African American actress and blues and gospel singer
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Maggie Jones
Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
49
Alberta Hunter
Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
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Irene Scruggs
Irene Scruggs
American Piedmont blues and country blues singer
51
Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
52
Walter Roland
Walter Roland
American blues, boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, guitarist and singer
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Big Maybelle
Big Maybelle
American R&B singer and pianist
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Helen Humes
Helen Humes
American jazz and blues singer
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Clarence Williams
Clarence Williams
American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher
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Edna Hicks
Edna Hicks
American blues singer and musician.
57
Ottilie Patterson
Ottilie Patterson
Irish singer
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Madlyn Davis
Madlyn Davis
American classic female blues singer
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
American jazz singer
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Leroy Kirkland
Leroy Kirkland
American musician
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Ralph Peer
Ralph Peer
Talent scout, recording engineer and record producer
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Mickey Baker
Mickey Baker
American jazz and rock guitarist
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Lillian Goodner
Lillian Goodner
African American blues singer
Kitty Brown
American classic female blues singer

Kitty Brown

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American classic female blues singer
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Catherine Brown, known as Kitty Brown (born October 1899, died after 1990), was an American classic female blues singer. She sometimes used the pseudonyms Bessie Williams (she was not the only performer to use this name), Jane White, Dixie Gray, Rosa Green, and Mazie Leroy. Brown was active as a recording artist from 1923 to the mid-1930s. Songs she recorded include "I Wanna Jazz Some More" and "It's De-Lovely". Little is known of her life outside music.