How to pronounce “bessie” in English

singer Bessie Smith at the peak of her vocal powers and popularity at the alambra theater in Harlem a few years

This is Bessie Mecklem.

Billie claimed Bessie Smith, along with Louis Armstrong, as one of her seminal influences.

There's Bessie Smith in her unmarked grave.

Billie would later record one of Bessie Smith's famous songs, "'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do," to her own great acclaim.

In fact, Bessie was the first saxophonist to record.

couldn't use computers said oh no I asked Bessie and she look she goes online and she finds out before I talk

At Alice Dean's, Billie Holiday heard Bessie Smith, the Empress of the blues.

through black music from fan to critic to producer Hammond had engineered Bessie Smith's final recordings discovered Billy Holiday when she was 17

I play Bessie, wife number three.

And then after that, I'm doing story in "Tales of the Talented Tenth" about Bessie Stringfield.

And then in "Strange Fruit, Volume Two," which will come out after Bessie Stringfield's "Tales of the Talented Tenth," will be William and Ellen Kraft

And then she hears the owners in the house going, "Fire up Bessie, we're going to town!" And she's Bessie, so, OK.

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And it was kind of a 1920s style, Bessie Smith