United States blues singer (1894-1937)
1EBONY: Tell me about your role in the upcoming Bessie Smith project.
2Not to mention Queen Latifanh's nod at Bessie Smith in HBO's Bessie.
3EBONY: So you have James Brown and Bessie Smith projects done.
4Black women in music like Bessie Smith and Mahalia Jackson were very independent.
5TS: My character is a dancer and seamstress who is one of Bessie Smith's lovers.
6She grew up listening to Leadbelly and Bessie Smith.
7On May 16th, HBO premiere Bessie , a biopic of the great American blues singer Bessie Smith.
8Angela Davis's book analyses and contextualises the music of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday.
9A new HBO film on Bessie Smith.
10Alberta Hunter wrote "Downhearted Blues," which Bessie Smith used for her first recording for Columbia.
11But the winner is probably yet another true story: Bessie , featuring Queen Latifa as jazz immortal Bessie Smith.
12Solly ordered for me from America four LPs of Bessie Smith, the empress of the blues, as she was billed.
13There were also women who were open with their sexuality that I really adore like Bessie Smith and Storme Webber.
14In celebration of Bessie , chronicling the life of legendary blues singer Bessie Smith, HBO recently launched the Bessie's 81 Theatre Tour.
15He "translates" songs by singing about, for example, a man instead of a woman in a Bessie Smith song.
16I don't think people have seen her like this, and Bessie Smith's story is one that I think can really inspire people.
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