Bessie Smith

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What Wikipedia says

Bessie Smith (April 15, 1892 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues" and formerly Queen of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s.

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