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IrinaVladis [17]
3 years ago
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Who was nicknamed the “Empress of the Blues” and became the highest-paid African American entertainer of the 1920s?

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Serhud [2]3 years ago
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Answer:

Bessie Smith was nicknamed the  <em>“Empress of the Blues”</em>.  She was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 15, 1894 and died in Clarksdale, Mississippi on September 27, 1937.

She recorded her first track in 1923, <em>Downhearted Blues</em>. In September of that year he gave voice to <em>Jailhouse Blues</em>. She recorded with: Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Benny Goodman. In 1929, she starred in the short film St. Louis Blues. John Coltrane, in 1964, dedicated to her the song Bessie’s Blues.

She became a blues star, and was the most famous and highest paid black singer, earning $ 2,000 a week. She had her own train to travel and had her own show in which more than 40 artists came to perform under her baton.

She died in 1937 in a traffic accident surrounded by mystery and racism: it was reported that she was denied assistance in a Mississippi hospital reserved for white patients and died while being transferred to the nearest  hospital for black people.

9966 [12]3 years ago
4 0

Bessie Smith was nicknamed Empress of the Blues and had a big impact on the Jazz community.

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