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Bessie Smith
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…
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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.
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2025
Memories
Movie Music
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2024
STAIN
Movie Music
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2004
The Story Of The Blues
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
It's Black Entertainment
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2001
A Huey P. Newton Story
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1999
Blues Masters
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1993
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1993
Blues Masters - The Essential History of the Blues
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1929
St. Louis Blues
Movie Bessie - Battered Wife
