Music Archives - Page 15 of 36

Marie Leszczyńska

France’s longest-serving queen

Izora Armstead

American singer best known as one half of the duo Two Tons O’ Fun, which later became The Weather Girls.

Caroline of Ansbach

Queen of Great Britain in the 1700s

Shirley Graham Du Bois

African-American writer, composer, educator, and civil rights activist

African-American stand-up comic and actor who was active in stage, television and films from the 1910s to 1970s. She was also one of the 20th century’s first openly queer comedians, coming out as a lesbian in 1921.

Amparo Cardenal

We do not know much about Amparo Cardenal, a teenager living in Valencia, Spain, around 1900, but we can still hear her singing. Five recordings she made at the Puerto y Novella studio in her native city have survived to our days.

Mahalia Jackson

Mahalia Jackson (1911–1972) was an American gospel singer, widely considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century.

Odaline de la Martinez

Composer, conductor and a graduate in maths and music, Odaline was the first woman, in 1984, to conduct a Prom in 89 seasons of the BBC Promenade Concerts, since it’s inception in 1895.