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Nancy Agag

Sudanese singer-songwriter and recording artist Nancy Agag combines songs from older Sudanese musicians with her own compositions.

Zitkála-Šá (“Red Bird”), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Native American musician, writer and activist who fought for women’s suffrage and Indigenous voting rights in the early 20th century. Her writings and activism led to citizenship and voting rights for not only women, but all Indigenous people.

Tuini Ngāwai

Tuini left behind a rich legacy of songs and an unsurpassed standard of composition, work and community leadership.

Joan Trimble

Irish pianist, composer, and newspaper proprietor

Rhoda Coghill

Irish pianist, composer, and poet

Kate Wiggin

American author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,

Dorothea Jordan

“As an actress in comedy Dorothy Jordan can have had few equals, and no woman of the stage was ever more extravagantly praised by the eminent critics of her time.”