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American Blues Musicians

Musiciens du blues américains

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Edythe Baker (1899 - 1971)
Edythe A. Baker (August 25, 1899 – August 15, 1971) was an American boogie-woogie pianist. Baker was born in poverty in Girard, Kansas to Asa and Sophronia Baker. After her mother died around 191...
Etta James (1938 - 2012)
Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins, January 25, 1938) is an American blues, soul, rhythm and blues (R&B), rock and roll, gospel and jazz singer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as...
Janis Joplin (1943 - 1970)
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding C...
Ruby Smith (1903 - 1977)
Ruby Smith (August 24, 1903 – March 24, 1977) (born as Ruby Walker in New York) was an American classic female blues singer. She was a niece, by marriage, of the better known Bessie Smith, who discoura...
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954 - 1990)
Stephen Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990), known as Stevie Ray Vaughan, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. In spite of a short-lived mainstream career span...