Mamie Smith
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Most Influential Person Across History
American vaudeville singer and actress
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Why Is Mamie Smith Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mamie Smith was an American singer. As a vaudeville singer, she performed in multiple styles, including jazz and blues. In 1920, she entered blues history as the first African-American artist to make vocal blues recordings. Willie "The Lion" Smith described the background of these recordings in his autobiography Music on My Mind .
