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Bessie Jackson Biography, Photos, Pictures

Bessie Jackson was a pseudonym for Lucille Bogan, a classic female blues artist from the ’20s and ’30s whose outspoken lyrics deal with sexuality in a manner that manages to raise eyebrows even within a genre that is about as nasty as recorded music ever got prior to the emergence of artists such as 2 Live Crew or Ludacris

Bessie Jones Biography, Photos, Pictures

Although closely associated with the unique music of the Georgia Sea Islands, singer Bessie Jones was not actually born on the islands, but in a small mainland Georgia town As a young woman she moved to the islands and became an intrinsic part of the cultural life there

Bessie Smith Biography, Photos, Pictures

The first major blues and jazz singer on record and one of the most powerful of all time, Bessie Smith rightly earned the title of “The Empress of the Blues” Even on her first records in 1923, her passionate voice overcame the primitive recording quality of the day and still communicates easily to today’s listeners (which is not true of any other singer from that early period)

Bessie Tucker Biography, Photos, Pictures

Very little is known of the classic blues belter Bessie Tucker, a product of the folk and field holler vocal traditions of her native East Texas region A woman whose petite frame belied the earthy power of her voice, her legend is largely founded on a bawdy 1928 Memphis session for the Victor label on which she was accompanied by pianist K

As a singer, producer, and songwriter, Babyface was an inescapable presence in virtually every major facet of pop music during the ’90s His own recordings helped rejuvenate the R&B tradition of the smooth, sensitive, urban crooner and made him a staple of urban contemporary radio

Christian thrashers Betrayal were formed in the waning days of the Bay Area’s once-thriving speed metal scene (1989, to be exact) by vocalist Chris Ackerman, guitarists Marcus L

Spanish Flamenco artists, Mayte Mateus and Maria Mediolo were already performing together in 1977 for tourists when they were snapped up by RCA exec Leon Deane Now named Baccara, the duo were partnered with Rolf Soja, who penned their debut, “Yes Sir I Can Boogie”

A wildly flamboyant funk diva with few equals even three decades after her debut, Betty Davis combined the gritty emotional realism of Tina Turner, the futurist fashion sense of David Bowie, and the trendsetting flair of Miles Davis, her husband for a year

Betty Everett Biography, Photos, Pictures

Betty Everett sang gospel growing up in Greenwood, MS, before relocating to Chicago and moving into secular music She began recording for Cobra in 1958, then joined Vee-Jay in the early ’60s and started to land hit records

Betty Harris Biography, Photos, Pictures

Renowned in deep soul circles for the devastating ballad “Cry to Me,” singer Betty Harris was born in Orlando, FL, in 1941 and raised primarily in Alabama The child of preachers, her deep church roots conflicted with her desire to sing secular soul music, and at 17 she left home to pursue a performing career, briefly apprenticing under R&B star Big Maybelle before eventually landing in California, cutting the 1960 single “Taking Care of Business” for the Douglas label