Bessie Smith
April 15, 1894 (130 years old) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Bessie Smith was an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and was a major influence on fellow blues singers, as well as jazz vocalists.
Known For
Credits
- 2004 ·The Story Of The Bluesas Self (archive footage)
- 2002 ·It's Black Entertainmentas Self (archive footage)
- 2001 ·A Huey P. Newton Storyas Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1999 ·Blues Mastersas Self (archive footage)
- 1993 ·Bluesland: A Portrait in American Musicas Self (archive footage)
- 1993 ·Blues Masters - The Essential History of the Bluesas Self (archive footage)
- 1989 ·Wild Women Don't Have the Bluesas Self (archive footage)
- 1929 ·St. Louis Bluesas Bessie - Battered Wife