Bessie Smith (April 15, 1892 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues" and formerly Queen of the …

Oct 30, 2025 · Bessie Smith, American singer, one of the greatest blues vocalists. Known as the ‘Empress of the Blues,’ she was a bold, supremely confident artist who sang with breathtaking …

Bessie Smith (ca. 1895–1937) was a blues and jazz singer from the Harlem Renaissance who is remembered at as the Empress of the Blues.

Bessie Smith was a blues singer who was born into poverty and became one of the highest paid Black performers in America.

The African American singer Bessie Smith was called "The Empress of the Blues." Her magnificent voice, sense of the dramatic, clarity of diction (one never missed a word of what she sang), and …

Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she was coached by blues singer Ma Rainey, Smith was touring the South by the time she was in her teens. In 1923, she headed for the recording studios of …

Jan 28, 2025 · On April 15, 1894, Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Her parents and brother had died by the time Smith was nine, leaving her sister Viola as the caretaker.

Bessie Smith is considered to be one of the most popular and successful blues singers of the 1920 s and `30s. Known as the Empress of the Blues, Smith was born into poverty and orphaned at an early …

In the early 1920s she starred in the musical ‘How Come?’ which went to Broadway. Soon she was known as The Empress of The Blues, the biggest headliner of the black Theater Owners Booking …

Bessie Smith (July, 1892 or April, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was the most popular and successful female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, and an important influence on subsequent singers, …