Blues
United States
Bessie Smith
627,126
![Listen to St. Louis Blues (feat. Louis Armstrong & Fred Longshaw) [Remastered 2026 in Super Stereo by Good Gold Records] by Bessie Smith, see lyrics, music video & more!](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music221/v4/d6/25/9a/d6259a76-bfc7-8281-33da-d7e4d15961dd/199806863749.jpg/375x375bb.webp "Listen to St. Louis Blues (feat. Louis Armstrong & Fred Longshaw) [Remastered 2026 in Super Stereo by Good Gold Records] by Bessie Smith, see lyrics, music video & more!")
About Bessie Smith
The original tough-mama prototype for nearly every female blues singer to come, hard-living, big-voiced Bessie Smith was also the first blues singer with a mega-hit recording career, achieved in part via collaborations with some of the most notable musicians of her era. In her prime in the 1920s and 1930s, she was the highest-paid black entertainer in the U.S., and her influence persists to this day.
Influenced by Bessie SmithBessie Smith has influenced the music of Lena Horne, Bonnie Raitt, Diana Ross and more.
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