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American singer, one of the greatest of blues vocalists.
Smith grew up in poverty and obscurity. She may have made a first public appearance at the age of eight or nine at the Ivory Theatre in her hometown. About 1919 she was discovered by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, one of the first of the great blues singers. Known in her lifetime as the "Empress of the Blues" Smith was a bold, supremely confident artist who often disdained the use of a microphone and whose art expressed the frustrations and hopes of a whole generation of black Americans. Born April 15, 1898?, Chattanooga, Tenn., U.S.,
died Sept. 26, 1937, Clarksdale, Miss.
American singer, one of the greatest of blues vocalists.
Smith grew up in poverty and obscurity. She may have made a first public appearance at the age of eight or nine at the Ivory Theatre in her hometown. About 1919 she was discovered by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, one of the first of the great blues singers. Known in her lifetime as the "Empress of the Blues" Smith was a bold, supremely confident artist who often disdained the use of a microphone and whose art expressed the frustrations and hopes of a whole generation of black Americans. Born April 15, 1898?, Chattanooga, Tenn., U.S.,
died Sept. 26, 1937, Clarksdale, Miss.
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