Ernestine Anderson
Ernestine Anderson launched her amazing career as a jazz singer while still a teenaged Seattle high school student back in the 1940s.
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Claire Barry
The Barry Sisters was a popular Jewish-American vocal group whose careers spanned from the late 1930s through the early 1970s.
Merna Barry
The Barry Sisters was a popular Jewish-American vocal group whose careers spanned from the late 1930s through the early 1970s.
Billie Holiday
Jazz and blues icon
Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding was gifted with a natural talent for music. Not only is she an amazing jazz singer, but she can also play the upright bass at the same time, a skill that takes most musicians years to be able to do. While her music is categorized as jazz, she incorporates elements of R&B and Brazilian music into her songs.
Mavis Rivers
Samoan-New Zealander jazz singer
Anne Bushnell
Irish blues and jazz singer
Peggy Gilbert
Pioneering figure in the world of jazz and an advocate for women in music.
Felipa Graciela Pérez y Gutiérrez
Celebrated Cuban-American singer known for her enchanting performances in Cuban music and Latin jazz.
Alice Coltrane
Luminary in both the world of American jazz and Hindu spirituality.