List of classic female blues singers

The following is a list of classic female blues singers.

Contents :

• Top
• 0–9
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

A

• Mozelle Alderson^[1]
• Ora Alexander^[2]

B

Mildred Bailey

• Mildred Bailey
• Blue Lu Barker
• Gladys Bentley
• Esther Bigeou
• Lucille Bogan
• The Boswell Sisters
• Ada Brown^[3]
• Bessie Brown
• Eliza Brown^[4]
• Kitty Brown^[5]

C

• Alice Carter^[6]
• Alice Leslie Carter^[7]
• Martha Copeland^[8]
• Ida Cox^[9]
• Katie Crippen^[10]

D

• Madlyn Davis^[11]

E

• Bernice Edwards^[12]
• Susie Edwards

F

• Ethel Finnie^[13]
• Miss Frankie^[14]

G

• Cleo Gibson^[15]
• Lillian Glinn^[16]
• Lillian Goodner
• Ida Goodson
• Fannie May Goosby^[13]
• Coot Grant
• Helen Gross

H

Bertha "Chippie" Hill, New York City, circa 1946–1948 (William P. Gottlieb)

• Annette Hanshaw
• Marion Harris
• Lucille Hegamin^[9]
• Edmonia Henderson^[17]
• Katherine Henderson^[17]
• Rosa Henderson^[9]
• Edna Hicks
• Bertha "Chippie" Hill^[9]
• Mattie Hite^[18]
• Rosetta Howard
• Helen Humes
• Alberta Hunter^[19]

I

• Bertha Idaho^[20]

J

• Edith North Johnson^[21]
• Lil Johnson
• Mary Johnson
• Merline Johnson
• Maggie Jones^[22]

L

• Virginia Liston^[23]

M

Hattie McDaniel, 1941

• Daisy Martin
• Sara Martin
• Viola McCoy^[18]
• Hattie McDaniel
• Hazel Meyers^[13]
• Josie Miles
• Lizzie Miles^[24]
• Florence Mills
• Memphis Minnie
• Monette Moore

P

• Billie Pierce

R

• Ma Rainey^[9]
• Elzadie Robinson

S

Bessie Smith

• Bessie Smith^[9]
• Clara Smith^[9]
• Laura Smith^[25]
• Mamie Smith^[26]
• Ruby Smith
• Trixie Smith^[27]
• Victoria Spivey^[9]
• Mary Stafford
• Hannah Sylvester^[28]

T

• Eva Taylor
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe
• Bessie Tucker
• Sophie Tucker
• Lavinia Turner^[13]

W

Ethel Waters

• Sippie Wallace^[29]
• Ethel Waters ^[27]
• Georgia White
• Edith Wilson^[30]
• Lena Wilson

Y

• Estelle Yancey

See also

• Women in music

Notes

1. Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues - A Regional Experience. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers. p. 254. ISBN 978-0313344237.
2. Leggett, Steve. "Ora Alexander". Allmusic. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
3. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 83.
4. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 85.
5. Chadbourne, Eugene. "Kitty Brown". Allmusic. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
6. Chadbourne, Eugene. "Alice Carter". Allmusic. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
7. Chadbourne, Eugene. "Alice Leslie Carter". Allmusic. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
8. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 106.
9. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 7.
10. Harrison 1990, p. 49.
11. Arwulf, Arwulf. "Madlyn Davis". Allmusic. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
12. Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues - A Regional Experience. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers. p. 393. ISBN 978-0313344237.
13. Harrison 1990, p. 247.
14. Bogdanov, Woodstra, Erlewine 2003, p. 655.
15. Stewart-Baxter 1970, pp. 90–91.
16. Stewart-Baxter 1970, pp. 86–87.
17. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 91.
18. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 94.
19. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 79.
20. Chadbourne, Eugene. "Bertha Idaho". Allmusic. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
21. Leggett, Steven. "Edith North Johnson". Allmusic. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
22. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 74.
23. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 92.
24. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 80.
25. DePasquale, Ron. "Laura Smith". Allmusic. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
26. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 10.
27. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 81.
28. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 96.
29. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 68.
30. Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 26.

References

• Allmusic
• Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; and Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2003). All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. AMG all media guide. San Francisco, Calif.: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6.
• Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8.
• Stewart-Baxter, Derrick (1970). Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers. London: Studio Vista. OCLC 250212516