How to pronounce “bessie smith” in English

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

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.

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

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