The Life and Lasting Influence of Bessie Smith:

Finally, Columbia Records’ Frank Walter signed Smith to a recording contract and set her up in a studio on February 15, 1923. Although there is nothing that survives from her very first recording date, the following date she recorded “Gulf Coast Blues” and “Down Hearted Blues”. The record sold more than 750,000 copies that year, making her a blues star. She then married Jack McGee in June 1923.

Copeland grew up with very little money. She was living in a motel when she took

The lyrics to “Empty Bed Blues”, when not being sung, appear to be a regular poem. But when performed, the lyrics are transformed into a powerful and meaningful blues song. Bessie Smith is one of the most well-known and

In 1938, “Walkin’ Blues” was recorded and written by the Son House as a blues standard. It incorporated melodic and rhythmic elements from other songs which has a strum anticipating guitar styles of R&R. This song had mournful lyrics with

February of every year is known as National Black History Month. There are many African American people who made a great impact on all African-Americans today. In honor of this month, though, I have chosen to write about Marian Anderson. Marian Anderson was a singer who had made a great impact on many of the black singers in the past. She was one of the first female African-American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1955. Some of Marian’s last words to the public were “I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.”

Handy's contributions in shaping what is called the blues were influenced by the African-American musical folk traditions that he experienced during his travels and performances. In the year 1892 he formed a band that was called “Lauzette Quartet”, with the intention of performing at the Chicago World's Fair later that year. However, when the fair was postponed until 1893, the band split and went there separate ways. Handy ended up going to St. Louis shortly after where he experienced many difficult days of poverty, hunger and even homelessness.

Billie’s Blues was recorded by American Jazz musician singer and songwriter Eleanora Fagan Gough professionally acknowledged as Billie Holiday in 1936 and released 1999. As a teen, Holiday started singing in clubs in Harlem. Holiday's creativeness of tunes to fit the desire was new. Somewhere in the middle of the twentieth century, Brazilian and Cuban musical influences could be heard in Jazz. It's what I think of as essential singing, something nature herself had brought together and made it well-organized to make the greatest human of cries. She had a worthy intellect of poetic content at her undeveloped age. Listening to her music Holiday had an inspiring impact on jazz music and modern singing when it comes to the Expression, Performing forces and Rhythm of her piece.

Bessie Coleman left a legacy not just in Texas but in the United States that few pilots could ever achieve. She may not have been the first African American to earn a pilot's license but she was the first female African American. When people hear of famous African Americans their first thought automatically goes to Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr but nobody has heard of Bessie Coleman. It is thought that Bessie’s life was shaped by the tragedies she endured. First Bessie was born in early 1892 to illiterate parents that were both English-born slaves and that were children of slaves. Bessie’s father left her and his family in 1901. Her mother and two older brothers went to work later that year. Second, being African American during that time made it difficult for Coleman and her family to accomplish anything. Because of these reasons Bessie lived a life of hardships and tribulations. (notablebiographies.com)

Mamie Smith had a huge influence on many African-American woman during the Reconstruction Era. She paved the way for African-American blues singers during this time. Her career began when she was ten, and it only grew from there. She danced, sung, and performed all over the United States, growing and growing in popularity. She recorded songs which inspired many people, and she showed that African-Americans were as capable as the people around them.

She began to work with an improvisational style of singing called "scat," or "bop," singing, based on the complex, spontaneous instrumental style of Dizzy Gillespie. In 1945, Fitzgerald recorded a scat version of "Flying Home," which became one of the most influential vocal jazz records of the decade.

[6] They later changed their name to the Missourians in 1929. [7] A year later he moved to New York. In New York, Cab was able to perform at Harlem’s famous Cotton Club with his new band Cab Calloway and His Orchestra. They started recording professionally. Calloway’s most famous song was “Minnie the Moocher”. It sold over a million copies. “The Jumpin’ Jive” and “Blues in the Night” were big hits of the 1930’s and 40’s. [8] He went on tour in Europe, [9] Canada, and the

Bessie Smith is an American Jazz musician in the genre of blues. She was born on the date of 15th April 1894. She is known to well for her dominance in the blues genre music in the span of around 1920s and 1930s. Bessie attributes her success, by working continuously with Louis Armstrong. Research indicates that Louis was a key inspiration when it comes to the perfection of jazz vocals. In her time, Bessie Smith proudly boasts as one of the best Blues musicians both in the US and the world as a whole. However, her life was cut short in 1937 on September 26th, in a fatal car accident. Regarding the above-mentioned information, this paper discusses more the life of Bessie Smith, collectively with the dominance in the Blue Music (Scott, 2008).

Bessie Blount was a physical therapist who also invented an electric self-feeding device otherwise known as the portable receptacle support, which delivered food through a tube for handicapable people it was a smaller version of the electrical device that allowed a tube to give on mouthful of food at a time to a patient in a wheelchair. Bessie Blount was born in Hickory , Virginia on November 24, 1914 and she died on December 30 , 2009. The time and place affected her invention because at the time there was no portable way for people to eat , instead they had to wait until they were going to sit or lie in their bed but Bessie made it as though they can eat all day and any time of the day. Bessie was inspired to invent the electronic self-feeding

     The Blues musical move was prominent during the 1920s and '30s, a time known as the Harlem Renaissance. Blues music characteristically told the story of

Mrs. Bertha Flowers was the aristocrat of Black Stamps. She had the grace of control to appear warm in the coldest weather, and on the Arkansas summer days it seemed she had a private breeze which swirled around, cooling her. She was thin without the taut look of wiry people, and her printed voile dresses and flowered hats were as right for her as denim overalls for a farmer. She was our side’s answer to the richest white woman in town.