Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend by Jackie Kay

Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend

Jackie Kay

224 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir music informative reflective slow-paced
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There has never been anyone else like Bessie Smith. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1894 and orphaned by the age of nine, Bessie Smith sang on street corners before becoming a big name in traveling shows. In 1923, she made her first recording f...

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