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15 apr 2024 · The legend of Bessie Smith, who was born on April 15, 1894, and died, aged just 43, on September 26, 1937, has created an extra layer to what was a fascinating and monumental career. On a Thursday ...
Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 15, 1894. She began to sing at a young age and in 1923 signed a contract with Columbia Records. Soon she was among the highest-paid black performers of her time with hits like 'Downhearted Blues.'. By the end of the 1920s, however, her popularity had lessened though she continued to ...
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26 apr 2024 · J’na Jefferson. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Although her recording career lasted just five years, blues singer Ma Rainey created a legacy that reaches far beyond music. But if ...
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4 giorni fa · Her music earned her the moniker "Mama Africa", and she was variously described as the "Empress of African Song", the "Queen of South African music", and Africa's "first superstar". Music scholar J. U. Jacobs said that Makeba's music had "both been shaped by and given shape to black South African and American music". [141]
24 apr 2024 · Originally published on September 3, 2021. By Lissette Corsa The extraordinary life of South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba has been a constant North Star and source of inspiration for vocalist, composer and writer Somi Kakoma. Somi, as she’s known artistically, pays tribute to the late matriarch of African song on her latest album,
16 apr 2024 · Mancini jumped at the opportunity, and Hawks gave him a few boxes from the trip that contained African percussive instruments, a thumb piano and a tape of Masai tribal chants. Two chords from that chant, together with a slightly detuned upright piano formed the basis for the movie’s main theme.
