Bessie Smith'The most vivid evocation of Bessie Smith I have ever read' Ian Carr, BBC Music '[Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it she's the reason I started singing, really' Janis Joplin Bessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer. Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, she sang on street corners before becoming a big name in travelling shows. In 1923, she made her first recording for a new start up called
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