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Bessie Smith
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Early Life
- April 15th, 1894
- Chattanooga, Tennessee
- 1904
- Parents died
- Viola
- Andrew and Bessie
- Street performing
- 1904
- Clarence
- Stokes troupe
- 1912
- Stokes troupe
- Ma Rainey
Legacy
Bessie Smith
Empress of Blues
A number of recordings in the Grammy Hall of Fame
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
'Downhearted Blues' in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Inducted in Blues Hall of Fame
HBO movie starring Queen Latifah
Izzy Wade
1920s Career
- 1923
- Columbia Records
- February 15th
- Over 160 recordings
- Highest paid black entertainer of her time
- Louis Armstrong, James P. Johnson, Fletcher Henderson
Death
- 1937
- Husband sideswiped truck
- Died in hospital after arm amputation
- 1970
- Janis Joplin and Juanita Green
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