Ryan notes that before that film, many people weren’t familiar with Dandridge, inspiring her to explore the unsung accomplishments ... Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. And though her character ...

Nancy was born on April 7, 1952, in Zanesville, Ohio and was preceded in death by her parents Robert and Bessie Smith Davis, and her sisters ... Above all, her greatest accomplishment was the love and ...

(Photo by Chuck Deckert) Closing out the 2025 season will be Rebecca Jimerson presenting on Nov. 20 as Bessie Smith, a popular female blues singer ... the Chautauqua style as they present a scripted ...

Taking place on May 3, registration is now open. On Saturday at 8 a.m., starting from the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, riders will wind their way through downtown city streets in the center of ...

Seagram in 1841 -- Writer Henry James in 1843 -- Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1894 File Photo by Gary Haynes/UPI -- Musician Bessie Smith in 1894 -- Actor Marian Jordan in 1898 Hayden ...

Nina Simone and Bessie Smith, who inspired one of rock ‘n roll’s greatest legends. The show runs for 133 minutes.

Collaborations have been a staple of recorded music since (and probably before) Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith committed St. Louis Blues to wax a century ago. Artists like David Bowie have used ...

Masekela had been greatly moved by the music he heard on the 78 RPM gramophone records of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, Sy Oliver ...

Her parents loved music and played records on their Victrola all the time. At the age of 3, little Ernestine was singing along with Bessie Smith or whatever voice she heard coming from the record ...

Philly born rapper, actor and Hollywood icon, Will Smith has never been shy about his roots in the city's Wynnefield and Overbrook neighborhoods. From the opening lines of his theme song from "The ...

“One of the things that I’ve always found with vocalists all throughout the years, the greats, everybody from Bessie Smith to Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washingto ...

So much more than a blues singer, Bessie Smith was an icon, and her legend resonates like no other in the history of blues singers. The legend of Bessie Smith, who was born on April 15 ...