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Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
1
William Harris
American bluesman
2
Elzadie Robinson
American blues singer
3
Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
4
Viola McCoy
American blues singer
5
Josie Miles
American singer
6
Willie Baker
American Piedmont blues guitarist singer and songwriter
7
The Wolverines
band
8
Milton Ager
American composer
9
Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
10
Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
11
Carson Robison
American musician, singer and songwriter
12
Kitty Brown
American classic female blues singer
13
Wendell Hall
American musician
14
Hociel Thomas
American vaudeville and blues singer
15
Jessie Mae Hemphill
American country blues guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist
16
Bix Beiderbecke
American jazz musician
17
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer
18
Charlie Irvis
American musician
19
Edmonia Henderson
African American classic female blues singer
20
Daisy Martin
African American actress and blues singer
21
Charlie Holmes
American saxophonist
22
Scrapper Blackwell
American blues guitarist and singer
23
Vaughn De Leath
American female jazz singer
24
Edna Hicks
American blues singer and musician.
25
Roosevelt Sykes
American blues musician
26
Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
27
Jimmy Wade
American bandleader, conductor and jazz musician
28
Lizzie Miles
African American blues singer
29
Junior Kimbrough
american musician
30
Porter Grainger
American musician
31
Bessie Tucker
American classic female blues singer and songwriter
32
Hazel Meyers
American classic female blues and country blues singer
33
Bertha Idaho
American classic female blues singer
34
Madlyn Davis
American classic female blues singer
35
George Washington Thomas, Jr.
American musician
36
Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
37
Monette Moore
American jazz and blues singer (1902-1962)
38
Annette Hanshaw
American singer
39
Frankie Trumbauer
American musician
40
William Ezell
United StatesAmerican blues, jazz, ragtime and boogie-woogie pianist and singer
41
Edith North Johnson
American classic female blues singer, pianist and songwriter
42
Ernest Stoneman
American singer-songwriter
43
Lavinia Turner
musical artist
44
Hoagy Carmichael
American composer, pianist, singer, actor and bandleader (1899-1981)
45
Bessie Brown
American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer
46
Ruby Smith
American classic female blues singer
47
Memphis Jug Band
band
48
Ben Pollack
American musician
49
Rory Block
American blues guitarist and singer
50
Julia Lee
American blues and dirty blues musician
51
Henry Thomas
American recording artist; country blues singer, songster and musician.
52
Lady Bianca
American singer
53
Mary Johnson
American classic female blues singer, accordionist and songwriter
54
Ada Brown
American blues singer
55
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
56
Lillian Glinn
American classic female blues and country blues singer and songwriter
57
R. L. Burnside
American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist
58
Tom Delaney
African American blues and jazz songwriter, pianist and singer
59
Henry Whitter
American musician
60
Irene Scruggs
American Piedmont blues and country blues singer
61
Ishman Bracey
American singer-guitarist
62
Fats Waller
American jazz pianist and composer
63
Lena Wilson
American blues singer (1898-1939)
64
Alec Seward
American Piedmont and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
