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Edith Wilson
Edith Wilson
American blues singer and vaudeville performer (1896-1981)
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Trixie Smith
Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
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Esther Bigeou
Esther Bigeou
American vaudeville and blues singer
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Lucille Hegamin
Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
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Victoria Spivey
Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
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Sara Martin
Sara Martin
American blues singer
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Marion Harris
Marion Harris
American musician (1896-1944)
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Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters
American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress
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Buck Washington
Buck Washington
American musician and pianist
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Eva Taylor
Eva Taylor
American singer and actress (1895-1977)
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Mamie Smith
Mamie Smith
American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)
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Virginia Liston
Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
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Rosa Henderson
Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
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Ida Cox
Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
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Coot Grant
Coot Grant
American classic female blues and vaudeville singer and songwriter
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Lovie Austin
Lovie Austin
American pianist
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Josie Miles
Josie Miles
American singer
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Bertha "Chippie" Hill
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer
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Viola McCoy
Viola McCoy
American blues singer
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Hannah Sylvester
Hannah Sylvester
African American blues singer
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Hazel Meyers
Hazel Meyers
American classic female blues and country blues singer
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Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway
American jazz singer and bandleader (1907-1994)
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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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Midge Williams
Midge Williams
African American swing and jazz singer
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Bessie Brown
Bessie Brown
American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer
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Gladys Bentley
Gladys Bentley
American blues singer
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Monette Moore
Monette Moore
American jazz and blues singer (1902-1962)
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Maggie Jones
Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
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Ada Brown
Ada Brown
American blues singer
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
American jazz singer
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Wesley Wilson
Wesley Wilson
American blues, jazz, and vaudeville singer and songwriter (1893-1958)
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Adelaide Hall
Adelaide Hall
American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer
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Annette Hanshaw
Annette Hanshaw
American singer
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James P. Johnson
James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
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Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
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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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Mattie Hite
Mattie Hite
African-American blues singer
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Big Mama Thornton
Big Mama Thornton
American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
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Edna Hicks
Edna Hicks
American blues singer and musician.
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Joe Williams
Joe Williams
American jazz singer
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Connee Boswell
Connee Boswell
American musician (1907-1976)
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Mildred Bailey
Mildred Bailey
American jazz singer
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Wynonie Harris
Wynonie Harris
American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer
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Linda Hopkins
Linda Hopkins
African American actress and blues and gospel singer
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Viola Gertrude Wells
Viola Gertrude Wells
American singer
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Frankie Jaxon
Frankie Jaxon
African American vaudeville singer, female impersonator, stage designer and comedian
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
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Bea Booze
Bea Booze
American musician
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American blues singer (1898-1939)
Lena Wilson

Lena Wilson (c. 1898 – c. 1939) was an American blues singer who performed in the classic female blues style. An African-American, Wilson performed in vaudeville with her brother Danny and his wife, Edith Wilson in the late 1910s and 1920s. Wilson made numerous recordings in the 1920s as a solo artist, for labels such as Black Swan, Paramount, Pathé, Victor, and Vocalion.