Ottilie Patterson
Irish blues and jazz singer
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Maria Szymanowska
Polish pianist and composer
Agnieszka Truskolaska
Polish opera singer
Agathe Backer-Grøndahl
Norwegian composer
Mary Garden
Scottish-American dramatic soprano
Charlotte Fox
Irish ethnomusicologist
Bessie Smith
Acknowledged as one of the greatest blues singers of the twentieth century, Bessie Smith reigned as the “Empress of the Blues” throughout most of the 1920s.
Nancy Agag
Sudanese singer-songwriter and recording artist Nancy Agag combines songs from older Sudanese musicians with her own compositions.
Zitkala-Ša
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.
Alice Easton Law
At New Zealand’s Jubilee Institute for the Blind, she taught the piano and encouraged her students to believe that visual impairment was no impediment to music. Using Braille, she guided them through their examinations and produced several high-quality musicians.