Bessie Smith
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Most Influential Person
American blues singer
Why Is Bessie Smith Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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 1930s. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, 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.
