THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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Jessie Smith
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Bessie Smith
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Zori Kneel Houston
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Detailed explanation-1: -Even so, Bessie Smith’s short career was amazing. She became the nation’s highest-paid black entertainer and one of the biggest stars of the 1920s. Of her many recordings with famous artists, her version of “St. Louis Blues” with Louis.
Detailed explanation-2: -Who was Bessie Smith? Bessie Smith was one of the greatest blues vocalists ever. She made 160 recordings in all, in many of which she was accompanied by some of the great jazz musicians of the 1920s and ‘30s, including Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman, and Louis Armstrong.
Detailed explanation-3: -Bessie Smith, a female blues singer, was perhaps the outstanding vocalist of the decade. She recorded on black-oriented labels produced by the major record companies. She achieved enormous popularity and in 1927 became the highest-paid black artist in the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dubbed the Empress of the Blues, Smith was the highest paid Black performer in the late 1920s and influenced countless singers, from Billie Holiday to Janis Joplin, Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin.