Who Were The First Blues Singers
Ma Rainey and her band Ma Rainey centre and her band 1923.
Who were the first blues singers. Papa Charlie had a very successful career but the honour of being. The first blues recordings were made in the 1920s by Black women such as Mamie Smith Ma Rainey Ida Cox and Bessie Smith. Classic female urban or vaudeville blues singers were popular in the 1920s among them Mamie Smith Ma Rainey Bessie Smith and Victoria Spivey.
1905 1960s Alabama Piedmont blues. Lonnie Johnson February 8 1899 disputed possibly 1889 or 1894 June 16 1970. Hart Wands Dallas Blues was the first while the second was Arthur Seals Baby Seals Blues.
The majority of blues musicians had descendants from Africa who were transported to America in the slave trade. Blues singer and guitarist. Perhaps more than any other artist Big Bill Broonzy brought the.
Johnson August 18 1909 February 2 1975. They all recorded in 1923. Their style is known as classic blues.
Ma Rainey Bessie Smith Ethel Waters and the other singers in this genre were. Blues and gospel singer guitarist and songwriter one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s who has been called the Father of the Texas Blues. Classic female blues was an early form of blues music popular in the 1920s.
Rainey was born Gertrude Pridgett in 1886 in Columbus Georgia. The Great Early Blues Artists Big Bill Broozy. Big Bill Broonzys Trouble Mind.