With Ariana Grande's recent Oscar nomination for her performance in Wicked (2024), the American singer joins the five famous ...

In the early 20th Century female performers such as Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith took the music to a wider audience and sold millions of "race records" in the process. The blues evolved further in ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

And Arizona Theatre Company‘s “Blues in the Night” is chock full of the music. It is a platform for songs by some of the greatest musicians in the genre, among them Bessie Smith, Alberta ...