Bessie Smith
Official videos
15y old Steve Winwood - Nobody knows you when you're down and out
Bessie Smith-Tain't Nobody Business If I Do
Bessie Smith - Back Water Blues Lyrics
Bessie Smith -- Baby Won't You Please Come Home 1923
Bessie Smith-Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl
Bessie Smith-Back Water Blues
DOWN HEARTED BLUES by Bessie Smith with Clarence Williams 1923
Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues (1929)
Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues, 1925
Out of the Blues | Helswingi 2023
About this artist
Bessie Smith (born April 14, 1894, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA – died September 26, 1937, in a car accident near Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA) was an American blues singer.
Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time. She was also a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest paid African-American performer of the roaring twenties. Bessie died from injuries sustained in a car crash. Her arm which was probably hanging out the car window was almost severed at the elbow. Her grave was unmarked for 33 years until paid for her headstone in 1970. Half-sister of .
Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 (Early Influence).
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