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Virginia Liston
Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
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Viola McCoy
Viola McCoy
American blues singer
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Edna Hicks
Edna Hicks
American blues singer and musician.
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Original Dixieland Jass Band
Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
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Clarence Williams
Clarence Williams
American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher
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Lena Wilson
Lena Wilson
American blues singer (1898-1939)
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Josie Miles
Josie Miles
American singer
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Katherine Henderson
Katherine Henderson
American classic female blues singer
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Big Maybelle
Big Maybelle
American R&B singer and pianist
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The Boswell Sisters
The Boswell Sisters
Singing trio popular during the Jazz Age
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Trixie Smith
Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
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Clara Smith
Clara Smith
American classic female blues singer
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Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
American blues singer
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Mamie Smith
Mamie Smith
American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)
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Frank Stokes
Frank Stokes
American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel
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Victoria Spivey
Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
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Martha Copeland
Martha Copeland
American classic female blues singer
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Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters
American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress
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Lavinia Turner
Lavinia Turner
musical artist
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Lucille Hegamin
Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
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Rosa Henderson
Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
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Lovie Austin
Lovie Austin
American pianist
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Esther Bigeou
Esther Bigeou
American vaudeville and blues singer
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Ida Cox
Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
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Ruth Brown
Ruth Brown
American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)
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Maggie Jones
Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
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W. C. Handy
W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
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Eva Taylor
Eva Taylor
American singer and actress (1895-1977)
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Sara Martin
Sara Martin
American blues singer
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Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
American bluesman and songster
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Edith Wilson
Edith Wilson
American blues singer and vaudeville performer (1896-1981)
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Ada Brown
Ada Brown
American blues singer
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Annette Hanshaw
Annette Hanshaw
American singer
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Wynonie Harris
Wynonie Harris
American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer
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Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
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Roy Brown
Roy Brown
American R&B singer, songwriter and musician
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Sippie Wallace
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
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Monette Moore
Monette Moore
American jazz and blues singer (1902-1962)
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Hociel Thomas
Hociel Thomas
American vaudeville and 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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Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
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Hazel Meyers
Hazel Meyers
American classic female blues and country blues singer
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Bertha "Chippie" Hill
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer
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Alberta Hunter
Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
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Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson
American gospel singer
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Alfred Aloysous Bernard
Alfred Aloysous Bernard
American singer
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Tommy Johnson
Tommy Johnson
American musician
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Bertha Idaho
Bertha Idaho
American classic female blues singer
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Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
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Connee Boswell
Connee Boswell
American musician (1907-1976)
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Ella Mae Morse
Ella Mae Morse
American popular music singer (1924-1999)
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Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee
American recording artist; singer, songwriter, composer and actress (1920-2002)
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Coot Grant
Coot Grant
American classic female blues and vaudeville singer and songwriter
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Helen Gross
Helen Gross
American classic female blues singer
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Margaret Whiting
Margaret Whiting
American recording artist; singer
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Mildred Bailey
Mildred Bailey
American jazz singer
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Daisy Martin
Daisy Martin
African American actress and blues singer
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Jimmy Rowles
Jimmy Rowles
American jazz pianist


Marion Harris (born Mary Ellen Harrison, April 4, 1896 – April 23, 1944) was an American popular singer who was most successful in the late 1910s and the 1920s. She was the first widely known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs.