Mary Stafford, from a 1921 publication.
Mary Stafford (ca. 1895 – ca. 1938), born Annie Burns, was an American cabaret singer in the classic blues style.
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Marion Harris
American musician (1896-1944)
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Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
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Mildred Bailey
American jazz singer
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Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
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Ivie Anderson
American jazz singer
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Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
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Monette Moore
American jazz and blues singer (1902-1962)
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Viola McCoy
American blues singer
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Eva Taylor
American singer and actress (1895-1977)
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Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
10
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
11
Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
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Viola Gertrude Wells
American singer
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Mattie Hite
African-American blues singer
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Billie Holiday
American jazz singer
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Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
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Lizzie Miles
African American blues singer
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Annie Ross
British-American actress, singer and vocalist
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Willie Mae Ford Smith
American singer
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Connee Boswell
American musician (1907-1976)
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Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
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Mahalia Jackson
American gospel singer
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Sara Martin
American blues singer
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Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
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Katie Crippen
African American entertainer and singer
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Ruth Brown
American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)
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Blanche Calloway
American singer, bandleader and composer
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Edna Hicks
American blues singer and musician.
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Jo Stafford
American singer (1917-2008)
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Mamie Smith
American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)
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Esther Bigeou
American vaudeville and blues singer
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Lil Hardin Armstrong
American jazz musician
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Lucky Millinder
American rhythm and blues and swing bandleader
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Frankie Trumbauer
American musician
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Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
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Ernestine Anderson
American jazz and blues singer
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Adelaide Hall
American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer
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Lee Wiley
American singer
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W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
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Helen Humes
American jazz and blues singer
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Annisteen Allen
singer
41
Albennie Jones
American singer
42
Annette Hanshaw
American singer
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Jon Hendricks
American jazz singer, lyricist, jazz critic and historian
44
Ralph Burns
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
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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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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American gospel musician
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Sarah Vaughan
American jazz singer
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Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
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Odetta
American recording artist, singer, actress, guitarist, lyricist, and civil and human rights activist (1930-2008)
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Hot Lips Page
American jazz musician
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John Hammond
American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic
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Cassandra Wilson
American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi
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Ella Fitzgerald
American jazz singer
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Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
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Etta James
American recording artist; singer
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Hannah Sylvester
African American blues singer
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La Bolduc
French Canadian singer and musician
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Bea Booze
American musician
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Regina Carter
American musician
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Isham Jones
American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter
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Estelle Yancey
American blues singer
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Leroy Jenkins
composer and Avant-garde Jazz violinist and violist
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Guy Lombardo
Canadian-American bandleader
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Carmen McRae
American jazz musician and actress
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Eddie Harris
American jazz musician, saxophonist
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Paul Whiteman
American jazz musician and radio personality
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Ndidi Onukwulu
Canadian singer