Actor · Music
Born Apr 15, 1894 · Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Active 1929–1937 · Awards: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, National Women's Hall of Fame
Bessie Smith was an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s.