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Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
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Viola McCoy
American blues singer
2
Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
3
Hannah Sylvester
African American blues singer
4
Katherine Henderson
American classic female blues singer
5
Daisy Martin
African American actress and blues singer
6
Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
7
Sara Martin
American blues singer
8
Martha Copeland
American classic female blues singer
9
Hazel Meyers
American classic female blues and country blues singer
10
Mamie Smith
American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)
11
Edith Wilson
American blues singer and vaudeville performer (1896-1981)
12
Linda Hopkins
African American actress and blues and gospel singer
13
Bessie Brown
American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer
14
Esther Bigeou
American vaudeville and blues singer
15
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
16
Bea Booze
American musician
17
Adelaide Hall
American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer
18
Eva Taylor
American singer and actress (1895-1977)
19
Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
20
Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
21
Lena Wilson
American blues singer (1898-1939)
22
Ozie Ware
A singer from the USA
23
Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
24
Edmonia Henderson
African American classic female blues singer
25
Clara Smith
American classic female blues singer
26
Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
27
Wynonie Harris
American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer
28
The 5th Dimension
American popular music vocal group
29
Memphis Minnie
American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
30
Alice Leslie Carter
United States American classic female blues singer
31
Edna Hicks
American blues singer and musician.
32
Billie Holiday
American jazz singer
33
Gladys Bentley
American blues singer
34
Blanche Calloway
American singer, bandleader and composer
35
Mary Stafford
American cabaret singer
36
Maggie Bell
Scottish singer-songwriter
37
Cleo Gibson
American blues singer
38
Monette Moore
American jazz and blues singer (1902-1962)
39
Andrea Marcovicci
American actress and singer
40
Sylvia Robinson
American singer, record producer, and executive
41
Sam Manning
Trinidad and Tobago musician
42
Josie Miles
American singer
43
Viola Gertrude Wells
American singer
44
W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
45
Bessie Smith
American blues singer
46
Tammy Grimes
American actress and singer
47
Big Mama Thornton
American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
48
Eddie Taylor
American electric blues guitarist and singer
49
Ella Fitzgerald
American jazz singer
50
Julie Wilson
actress (1924-2015)
51
Bull City Red
American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer
52
Anna Mae Winburn
African-American vocalist and jazz bandleader
53
Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
54
Ernestine Anderson
American jazz and blues singer
55
Queen Esther
American singer
56
John Hammond
American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic
57
Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
58
Bobbi Humphrey
American soul-jazz musician
59
Lovie Austin
American pianist
60
Ethel Waters
American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress
61
Mabel Scott
American singer
62
May Alix
American cabaret and jazz vocalist
63
Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
64
Porter Grainger
American musician
65
Bonnie Bramlett
American singer and occasional actress
