Bessie Smith
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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 1920s and 1930s. 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.
Known for
Credits
It's Black Entertainment (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993)
as Self (archive footage)
The Story Of The Blues (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Blues Masters (1999)
as Self (archive footage)
St. Louis Blues (1929)
as Bessie - Battered Wife
Blues Masters - The Essential History of the Blues (1993)
as Self (archive footage)